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Islamic Empire

Here are entered works dealing with the Middle East alone, or the Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Spain as a whole, during the period 622-1517, i.e., from the rise and expansion of Islam to the creation of the Ottoman Empire.

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• Saracens

• The Jihād and its Times: Dedicated to Andrew Stefan Ehrenkreutz (Michigan series on the Middle East #4; Ann Arbor: Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan, 1991), ed. by Hadia Dajani-Shakeel and Ronald A. Messier
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • 2011 reprint: page images at HathiTrust
• A Short History of the Saracens: Being a Concise Account of the Rise and Decline of the Saracenic Power and of the Economic, Social and Intellectual Development of the Arab Nation From the Earliest Times to the Destruction of Bagdad, and the Expulsion of the Moors from Spain (London: Macmillan, 1921), by Syed Ameer Ali (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of the Saracens (second edition, 2 volumes; 1718), by Simon Ockley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the Saracens (third edition, 2 volumes; Cambridge: Printed for A. Ockley, 1757), by Simon Ockley
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The History of the Saracens, Comprising the Lives of Mohammed and His Successors, to the Death of Abdalmelik, the Eleventh Caliph (6th edition; London: H. J. Bohn, 1857), by Simon Ockley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Conquest of Syria, Persia, and AEgypt, by the Saracens: Containing the Lives of Abubeker, Omar and Othman, the Immediate Successors of Mahomet (London: Printed for R. Knaplock et al., 1708), by Simon Ockley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Middle East Remembered: Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Jacob Lassner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Middle East Remembered: Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Jacob Lassner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Conquest of Syria, Persia, and AEgypt, by the Saracens: Containing the Lives of Abubeker, Omar and Othman, the Immediate Successors of Mahomet (London: Printed for R. Knaplock et al., 1708), by Simon Ockley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the Saracens (second edition, 2 volumes; 1718), by Simon Ockley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the Saracens (third edition, 2 volumes; Cambridge: Printed for A. Ockley, 1757), by Simon Ockley
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The History of the Saracens, Comprising the Lives of Mohammed and His Successors, to the Death of Abdalmelik, the Eleventh Caliph (6th edition; London: H. J. Bohn, 1857), by Simon Ockley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Probe into the History of Ashura, by Ibrahim Ayati (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Imam Husain and His Martyrdom, by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (HTML at al-islam.org)
• Karbala and Ashura, by Ali Hussain Jalali (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• The Umayyad and the 'Abbasid Khalifates (Chennai et al.: Christian Literature Society for India, 1914), by Edward Sell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Umayyad and the 'Abbasid Khalifates (Chennai et al.: Christian Literature Society for India, 1914), by Edward Sell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A History of the Crusades (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969-1989), ed. by Kenneth M. Setton (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Crusaders: or, Scenes, Events, and Characters From the Times of the Crusades (fifth edition; London: J. W. Parker and Son, 1859), by Thomas Keightley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, ed. by Angeliki E. Laiou and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh (PDF wth commentary at doaks.org)
• Histoire des Croisades (in French; 1751), by Voltaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of Chivalry (second edition; London: Colburn and Bentley, 1830), by G. P. R. James (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• The History of Chivalry (New York: Harper and Bros., n.d.), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)
• Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain: The Order of Merced on the Christian-Islamic Frontier, by James Brodman (PDF files at Libro)

• Heroines of the Crusades (Auburn and Rochester: Alden and Beardsley, 1857), by C. A. Bloss (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• The Holy War (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by Thomas Patrick Murphy
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• The History of the Holy Warre (Cambridge, 1640), by Thomas Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the Holy War (London: W. Pickering, 1840), by Thomas Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Brethren, by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)

• The Deeds of God Through the Franks, by Guibert of Nogent, trans. by Robert Levine (Gutenberg text)
• Godeffroy of Boloyne: or, The Siege and Conqueste of Jerusalem (EETS extra series #64; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1893, reprinted 1926), by William of Tyre, ed. by Mary Noyes Colvin, trans. by William Caxton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Un Imperatore Bizantino della Decadenza: Isacco II Angelo (in Italian; extracted from "Bessarione"; 1915), by Francesco Cognasso (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Stories From the Crusades, by Janet Harvey Kelman, illust. by Lowes Dalbiac Luard (illustrated HTML with commentary at Gateway to the Classics)

• The Three Kings' Sons (Englisht From the French) (text volume (no followups published); EETS extra series #67; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1895), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • main text only: HTML at Michigan

• De Expugnatione Lyxbonensi, The Conquest of Lisbon: Edited from the Unique Manuscript in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with a Translation into English (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936), by Osbernus, ed. by Charles W. David (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville (London: J. Murray, 1906), by Jean Joinville, trans. by Ethel Kate Bowen-Wedgwood (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Un Imperatore Bizantino della Decadenza: Isacco II Angelo (in Italian; extracted from "Bessarione"; 1915), by Francesco Cognasso (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Middle East Remembered: Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Jacob Lassner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization, Christian, Islamic, and Judaic, From Constantine to Dante, A. D. 325-1300 (The Story of Civilization v4; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950), by Will Durant (page images at HathiTrust)

• How the Khilafah Was Destroyed (2000), by 'Abd al-Qadīm Zallūm (PDF at hizb-ut-tahrir.org)

• Values in Islamic Culture and the Experience of History (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2002), ed. by Nur Kirabaev and Yuriy Pochta (multiple formats at Google)
• The Royal Treasure: Muslim Communities Under the Crown of Aragon in the Fourteenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), by John Boswell (PDF files at Libro)
• The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, ed. by Angeliki E. Laiou and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh (PDF wth commentary at doaks.org)
• Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages, by Thomas F. Glick (PDF files at Libro)
• How Did Islam Spread? By Sword or by Conversion?, by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain: The Order of Merced on the Christian-Islamic Frontier, by James Brodman (PDF files at Libro)

• A Selection from the Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldūn, With Notes and an English-German Glossary (Semitic Study series #4, in Arabic with English and German notes; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1905), by Ibn Khaldūn, ed. by Duncan Black Macdonald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Annales Islamologiques (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Revue du Monde Musulman (in French; 1906-1926) (partial serial archives)

• Islamic Contributions to Civilization (1963), by Stanwood Cobb (HTML at bahaistudies.net)

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