Huvudgrupp 1

Information om kurslitteratur ges vid kursstart.

• Chadwick, Robert, First civilizations: ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, 2. ed., London, Equinox Pub., 2005 (OBS, tillgänglig som e-bok i universitets bibliotek)
• Cleveland, William L.; Bunton, Martin P., A history of the modern Middle East, Sixth edition., Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 2016
• Millar, Fergus, "Religion, language and community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Muhammad", 2013 (OBS, tillgänglig som e-bok i universitets bibliotek))
• Kennedy, Hugh, The Prophet and the age of the caliphates: the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the eleventh century, Third Edition., 2016
• Bennison, Amira K., The great caliphs: the golden age of the 'Abbasid Empire, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009 (Främst kapitel 1 (tillgänglig som e-bok i universitets bibliotek))