The origins of the Islamic state: being a translation from the Arabic, accompanied with annotations, geographic and historic notes of the Kitâb fitûh al-buldân of al-Imâm abu-l Abbâs Ahmad ibn-Jâbir al-Balâdhuri
Baladhuri, Ahmad ibn Yahya, d. 892; Hitti, Philip Khuri, 1886-; Murgotten, Francis Clark