Sources

Every event on the timeline cites at least one of the works below, with a page or a link. The list grows with each research batch. Wikipedia, blogs and social media are never cited.

Ancient and pre-Islamic

Marc Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000–323 BC, 3rd ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. Tier 1. Core overview for prehistory to Seleucid. Not cited yet
Amélie Kuhrt, The Ancient Near East, c. 3000–330 BC, 2 vols., Routledge, 1995. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq, 3rd ed., Penguin, 1992. Tier 1 for chronology (older; check against Van De Mieroop). Not cited yet
The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, relevant volumes. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Karen Radner, Ancient Assyria: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2015. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire, Basic Books, 2023. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Pierre Briant, From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire, Eisenbrauns, 2002. Tier 1 for the Achaemenid era. Not cited yet
Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, I.B. Tauris, 2009. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Encyclopaedia Iranica (online), for Parthian, Sasanian and later Persian-related entries. Tier 1. Not cited yet
طه باقر, مقدمة في تاريخ الحضارات القديمة. Tier 2, Arabic summaries. Not cited yet

Islamic and medieval

Hugh Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, 3rd ed., Routledge, 2016. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Hugh Kennedy, The Early Abbasid Caliphate: A Political History, Croom Helm, 1981. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Chase F. Robinson, Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia, Cambridge University Press, 2000. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Encyclopaedia of Islam, second and third editions, Brill. Tier 1. Not cited yet
The Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 5 (Saljuq and Mongol periods) and vol. 6 (Timurid and Safavid periods), Cambridge University Press. Tier 1 for 1055 to 1508. Not cited yet
عبد العزيز الدوري, تاريخ العراق الاقتصادي في القرن الرابع الهجري. Tier 1, Arabic. Not cited yet
عباس العزاوي, تاريخ العراق بين احتلالين, 8 vols., Baghdad, 1935 to 1956. Tier 2, Arabic, covers 1258 to 1917. Not cited yet

Safavid and Ottoman

Stephen Hemsley Longrigg, Four Centuries of Modern Iraq, Clarendon Press, 1925. Tier 2, chronology only, colonial-era perspective noted. Not cited yet
Dina Rizk Khoury, State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540–1834, Cambridge University Press, 1997. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Tom Nieuwenhuis, Politics and Society in Early Modern Iraq, Martinus Nijhoff, 1982. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Ebubekir Ceylan, The Ottoman Origins of Modern Iraq, I.B. Tauris, 2011. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Gökhan Çetinsaya, Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890–1908, Routledge, 2006. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Hala Fattah, The Politics of Regional Trade in Iraq, Arabia, and the Gulf, 1745–1900, SUNY Press, 1997. Tier 1. Not cited yet
علي الوردي, لمحات اجتماعية من تاريخ العراق الحديث, 6 vols., Baghdad, 1969 to 1979. Tier 2, Arabic, Ottoman to 1924. Not cited yet

Mandate, Kingdom, Republic, Ba'ath

Charles Tripp, A History of Iraq, 3rd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2007. Tier 1. Core overview 1900 to 2007. Not cited yet
Phebe Marr and Ibrahim al-Marashi, The Modern History of Iraq, 4th ed., Westview Press, 2017. Tier 1. Core overview. Not cited yet
Hanna Batatu, The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq, Princeton University Press, 1978. Tier 1, social and political history to 1970s. Not cited yet
Peter Sluglett, Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country, 1914–1932, Columbia University Press, 2007. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Toby Dodge, Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied, Columbia University Press, 2003. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Abbas Kadhim, Reclaiming Iraq: The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State, University of Texas Press, 2012. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Orit Bashkin, The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq, Stanford University Press, 2009. Tier 1, culture and society. Not cited yet
Eric Davis, Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq, University of California Press, 2005. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett, Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship, 3rd ed., I.B. Tauris, 2001. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Joseph Sassoon, Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime, Cambridge University Press, 2012. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Kanan Makiya, Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, University of California Press, 1989 (updated ed. 1998). Tier 1, with the note that it is an engaged account; pair with Tripp or Sassoon. Not cited yet
Dina Rizk Khoury, Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance, Cambridge University Press, 2013. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Library of Congress, Iraq: A Country Study, ed. Helen Chapin Metz, 1988. Tier 2. Not cited yet
Human Rights Watch, Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds, 1993. Tier 2, primary documentation of Anfal. Not cited yet

2003 onward

Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace, Yale University Press, 2007. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Toby Dodge, Iraq: From War to a New Authoritarianism, IISS and Routledge, 2012. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Fanar Haddad, Sectarianism in Iraq: Antagonistic Visions of Unity, Hurst, 2011. Tier 1. Not cited yet
UN Security Council resolutions and UNAMI reports (un.org). Tier 1 primary. Not cited yet
The Constitution of the Republic of Iraq, 2005, official text. Tier 1 primary. Not cited yet
Independent High Electoral Commission results for elections. Tier 1 primary. Not cited yet
Reuters, AP, AFP, BBC for dates of events after 2003, two outlets agreeing. Tier 2. Not cited yet
Iraq Body Count: dataset for casualty counts after 2003, Tier 2, always with its methodology stated and always marked contested where other counts exist. Not cited yet

Communities, women and regions

David McDowall, A Modern History of the Kurds, I.B. Tauris, 3rd ed. 2004 or 4th ed. 2021. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Sargon Donabed, Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century, Edinburgh University Press, 2015. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Orit Bashkin, New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq, Stanford University Press, 2012. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Birgül Açıkyıldız, The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion, I.B. Tauris, 2010. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, The Mandaeans: Ancient Texts and Modern People, Oxford University Press, 2002. Tier 1. Not cited yet
Noga Efrati, Women in Iraq: Past Meets Present, Columbia University Press, 2012. Tier 1. Not cited yet