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"Early Islamic history" as a book category covers the formative centuries of Islam—from the life of the Prophet Muhammad in the early 7th century through the Umayyad and early Abbasid eras (roughly the 7th–10th centuries)—and focuses on the origins and early evolution of Islamic religion, polities, institutions, law, society, economy and culture across the Arabian Peninsula and the rapidly expanding Islamic world. Works in this category include narrative histories, critical editions and translations of primary sources (sira, hadith, chronicles), archaeological and numismatic studies, thematic monographs on topics such as conquest and administration, theology, legal formation, trade, urbanization and gender, and discussions of historiography and methods; they are aimed at both specialists and informed general readers interested in how early Islamic communities formed, interacted with neighboring societies, and laid the foundations of later Islamic civilization.

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