User:Al Ameer son/Umayyads

To-do

Origins

Umayyad dynasty, finish article
Harb ibn Umayya, rewrite
~~Abu Sufyan, rewrite~~
Uthman, partial rewrite with reliable, secondary sources
Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan, rewrite with reliable sources
Umayyad Caliphate, overhaul
Muslim conquest of the Levant, rewrite with reliable sources

Iraq and the East

Kufa, expand info about its founding and Umayyad period
Basra, expand info about its founding and Umayyad period
Mosul, expand on Umayyad period
Sawad, expand
~~Ziyad ibn Abihi, rewrite, bring to GA~~
Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, bring to GA
Banu Thaqif, rewrite
Abdallah ibn Amir, rewrite with secondary sources
~~Sa'id ibn Uthman ibn Affan, start~~
Al-Ahnaf ibn Qays, rewrite
~~Qays ibn Haytham al-Sulami, start~~
~~Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, bring to GA~~
Azd, rewrite
Abd al-Qays, expand
Azariqa, expand
~~Shabib ibn Yazid al-Shaybani, start~~
Bukayr ibn Wishah, start
Bahir ibn Warqa, start
Yazid ibn al-Muhallab, rewrite
Al-Mufaddal ibn al-Muhallab, start
Musa ibn Abd Allah ibn Khazim, start
Banu Tamim, rewrite
Waki ibn Abi Sud al-Tamimi, start
~~Salih ibn Abd al-Rahman, start~~
Zadhanfarrukh, start
Umar ibn Shabba, start
Ishaq ibn Tulayq al-Nahshali, start
Qahdam, start
Abd al-Hamid ibn Yahya, start
Jarir al-Bajali, start
Hujr ibn Adi, rewrite
~~Ghalib ibn Abd Allah al-Laythi, start~~
Al-Hakam ibn Amr al-Ghifari, start
Samura ibn Jundab, start
~~Amr ibn Hurayth, start~~
Masqala ibn Hubayra al-Shaybani, start
Rabi ibn Ziyad al-Harithi, expand

Syria

Muawiyah I, ~~improve with better sources~~ and bring to GA
~~Nu'man ibn Bashir al-Ansari, start~~
~~Natil ibn Qays, start~~
Bilad al-Sham, expand on the province being the metropolis of the caliphate
Jund Filastin, Jund al-Urdunn, Jund Qinnasrin, Jund Hims, expand
Al-Walid I, bring to FA
Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, bring to GA
Umar II, expand, rewrite and bring to GA
Yazid II, rewrite, expand and bring to GA
Dome of the Rock, improve to GA
Umayyad Mosque, improve to GA
Al-Khadra Palace, start
~~Sarjun ibn Mansur, start~~, courtesy of Cplakidas
~~Sulayman ibn Sa'd al-Khushani, start~~
~~Raja ibn Haywah, expand~~
~~Abd al-Rahman ibn Khalid, expand~~
~~Shurahbil ibn Simt, start~~
Busr ibn Abi Artat, start
~~Sufyan ibn Awf, start~~
Fadhala ibn Ubayd, start
Malik ibn Hubayra al-Sakuni, start

Hejaz

North Africa

Uqba ibn Nafi, rewrite
Musa ibn Nusayr, rewrite
~~Zuhayr ibn Qays, expand~~
Al-Kahina, improve
Kasila, improve

Sources

Amitai-Preiss, Nitzan (1997). "An Umayyad Lead Seal with the Name of the Caliph Muhammad b. Marwan". Al-Qantara. 18 (1): 233–242.
Wellhausen, J. (1927). Weir, Margaret Graham (ed.). The Arab Kingdom and its Fall. Calcutta: University of Calcutta. ISBN 9780415209045. OCLC 752790641. — General, detailed history of the caliphate, assessment of traditional sources
Kennedy, Hugh N. (2016) [2004]. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century (Third ed.). London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-78760-5. — General political history of the caliphate.
Hawting, G. R. (2000). The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661–750 (2nd ed.). London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24072-7. — General history of the caliphate, assessment of primary sources.
Watt, W. Montgomery (1986). "Kuraysh". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume V: Khe–Mahi. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 434–435. ISBN 978-90-04-07819-2. — Origins of the ruling family and Quraysh, if necessary
Della Vida, Giorgio Levi (2000). "Umayya b. Abd Shams". In Bearman, P. J.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E. & Heinrichs, W. P. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume X: T–U. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 837–839. ISBN 978-90-04-11211-7. — Origins of the ruling family.
Hawting, G. R. (2000). "Umayyads". In Bearman, P. J.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E. & Heinrichs, W. P. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume X: T–U. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 840–847. ISBN 978-90-04-11211-7. —Valuable assessment of traditional and Western sources, general history and legacy
Various EI2 entries on the Umayyad caliphs, generals, governors, poets and scholars — Potentially useful for filling in gaps.
Al-Tabari vols. 17–27 — Potentially useful for filling in gaps
Donner, Fred M. (1981). The Early Islamic Conquests. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400847877. — Mu'awiya I's early foothold in Syria.
Blankinship, Khalid Yahya (1994). The End of the Jihad State: The Reign of Hisham Ibn 'Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. ISBN 0-7914-1827-8. — General history of late Umayyad period, administration
Crone, Patricia; Hinds, Martin (1986). God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-32185-9. — Titles, religious authority, rituals
Johns, Jeremy (January 2003). "Archaeology and the History of Islam: The First Seventy Years". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 46 (4): 411–436. doi:10.1163/156852003772914848. — Archaeological and epigraphic sources
Borrut, Antoine; Cobb, Paul M. (2010). Umayyad Legacies Medieval Memories from Syria to Spain. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-19098-6.
Sprengling, M. (April 1939). "From Persian to Arabic". The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 56 (2). The University of Chicago Press: 175–224. doi:10.1086/370538. JSTOR 528934. S2CID 170486943., administration
Duri, Abd al-Aziz (1965). "Dīwān". In Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume II: C–G. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 323–327. OCLC 495469475., administration