Explorations of Early Islamic History & Civilization (EEIHC)

The First Arrow Against the Queen of Cities: The Forgotten First Arab Siege of Constantinople (654 CE)

The Polymath and the New Order: How Jacob of Edessa Observed Muslim Practice in the First Islamic Century (684–708 CE)

The Chronicle of 775: When a Syriac Chronicler Wrote the Caliphs as Rome's Legitimate Successors

The Chronicle of 724: A Syriac Translation of a Umayyad-era Chronicle

The Chronicle of 705: How Syriac Christians Began to See the Caliphate as a Kingdom

The Numbers That Fit: Why Jacob of Edessa Gave Muhammad 7 Years and 'Umar 12 — A Bishop's Theological Response to 51 Years of Muslim Rule (691 CE)

The Old Book of Tang: What Tang China's First Dynastic History Reveals About Early Islam

The East Syrian Witness: The Anonymous Chronicle of 660 and the Earliest Account of Islam's Triumph Over Rome & Persia

The Caliph at Golgotha: Muʿāwiya in Jerusalem and the Earliest Maronite Witness to Islam (664 CE)

The Quiet Contemporary: Thomas the Presbyter's Chronicle of 640 and the First Unadorned Account of the Arab Conquests