Khalid Yahya Blankinship
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Khalid Yahya Blankinship (born 1949, Seattle Washington) is an American historian specialising in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies.
In 1975 Blankinship received a MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the American University in Cairo, in 1983 a second MA in Islamic History from Cairo University and in 1988 a Ph.D. in History from the University of Washington.
He has lived and travelled widely in the Middle East, including eleven years in Egypt and one year in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
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- "The End of the Jihad State: The Reign of Hisham ibn `Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads" State University of New York Press, 1994. ISBN 0791418286
