61. Annals of the Early Caliphate, by Sir W. Muir (London, 1883).
62. The Caliphate, its rise, decline, and fall, by Sir W. Muir (2nd ed., London, 1924).
63. The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the last thirty years of Roman dominion, by A. J. Butler (London, 1902).
64. Das Arabische Reich und sein Sturz, by J. Wellhausen (Berlin, 1902).
An excellent history of the Umayyad dynasty based on the Annals of Tabarí.
65. The Eclipse of the Abbasid Caliphate, by H. F. Amedroz and D. S. Margoliouth, 7 vols. (Oxford, 1920-1).
Arabic texts and translations valuable for the history of the fourth century a.h.
66. The life and times of ‘Alí b. ‘Ísá, the Good Vizier, by H. Bowen (Cambridge, 1928).
67. Geschichte der Fatimiden-Chalifen, nach arabischen Quellen, by F. Wüstenfeld (Göttingen, 1881).