Blankinship, The End of the Jihad State: The Reign of Hisham Ibn 'Abd Al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads (1994)

Khalid Yahya Blankinship (1994).

Cited in

• 2026-06-09-essay-01-note-01 — Blankinship’s fiscal-pressure reading of al-Walid II’s sale of Khalid al-Qasri as the upstream cause of the Yamani revenge-motive feeding the coup (2026-06-09)
• 2026-06-09-note-01 — Blankinship’s fiscal-pressure reading of al-Walid II’s sale of Khalid al-Qasri as the upstream cause of the Yamani revenge-motive feeding the coup (2026-06-09)
• 2026-06-11-note-02 — Blankinship’s revisionist thesis — Hisham’s external military disasters as proximate cause of the post-744 collapse; the Yamani Syrian decimation that cleared the field for the Jaziri-Mudari army (2026-06-11)