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• List o of V Volumes a and S Scholars • The list of the scholars who participated in the translation and annotation of the Volumes I General Introduction/From the Franz Rosenthal Creation to the Flood II Prophets and Patriarchs William M. Brinner III The Children of Israel William M. Brinner IV The Ancient Kingdoms Moshe Perlmann V The S¯as¯anids, the Byzantines, the C. E. Bosworth Lakhmids, and Yemen VI MuÓhammad at Mecca W. Montgomery Watt and M. V . McDonald VII The Foundation of the Community M. V . McDonald, annotated by W. Montgomery Watt VIII The Victory of Islam Michael Fishbein IX The Last Years of the Prophet Ismail K. Poonawala X The Conquest of Arabia Fred M. Donner XI The Challenge to the Empires Khalid Yahya Blankinship XII The Battle of al-Q¯adisiyyah and the Yohanan Friedmann Conquest of Syria and Palestine XIII The Conquest of Iraq, Southwestern Gautier H. A. Juynboll Persia, and Egypt XIV The Conquest of Iran G. Rex Smith XV The Crisis of the Early Caliphate R. Stephen Humphreys XVI The Community Divided Adrian Brockett XVII The First Civil War G. R. Hawting XVIII Between Civil Wars: The Caliphate Michael G. Morony of Mu‘¯awiyah XIX The Caliphate of Yazıd Ian K. A. Howard b. Mu‘¯awiyah XX The Collapse of Sufy¯anid Authority G. R. Hawting and the Coming of the Marw¯anids XXI The Victory of the Marw¯anids Michael Fishbein XXII The Marw¯anid Restauration Everett K. Rowson XXIII The Zenith of the Marw¯anid House Martin Hinds XXIV The Empire in Transition David Stephan Powers XXV The End of Expansion Khalid Yahya Blankinship XXVI The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate Carole Hillenbrand XXVII The ‘Abb¯asid Revolution John Alden Williams XXVIII ‘Abb¯asid Authority Affirmed Jane Dammen McAuliffe XXIX Al-ManÓs¯ur and al-Mahdı Hugh Kennedy XXX The ‘Abb¯asid Caliphate in Equilibrium C. E. Bosworth XXXI The War between Brothers Michael Fishbein XXXII The Reunification of the ‘Abb¯asid C. E. Bosworth Caliphate XXXIII Storm and Stress along the Northern C. E. Bosworth Frontiers of the ‘Abb¯asid Caliphate XXXIV Incipient Decline Joel L. Kraemer XXXV The Crisis of the ‘Abb¯asid Caliphate George Saliba XXXVI The Revolt of the Zanj David Waines XXXVII The ‘Abb¯asid Recovery Philip M. Fields XXXVIII The Return of the Caliphate to Baghdad Franz Rosenthal XXXIX Biographies of the Prophet’s Ella Landau-Tasseron Companions and Their Successors ...

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