The series proposes to offer a critical selection of published research that has influenced the understanding of the formative period of Islamic history, approximately AD 600 to 950. The 17 facsimiles
Morony compares conditions in late Sasanian and early Islamic Iraq in the seventh century AD and depicts both the emergence of a local form of Islamic society, and the interaction of Muslim conquerors
Seemingly assembled for economic and other historians, this text presents 13 previously published papers (mostly from the 1960s-80s, but including one from 1894) that together define a portrait of man
