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• Islamic Empire -- History

• 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)

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• 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)

• 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)
• 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)

• A Knight of the White Cross, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text)

• 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 Prince and the Page, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

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

• The Children's Crusade (Portland, ME: T. B. Mosher, 1905), by Marcel Schwob, trans. by Henry Copley Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Kinderkreuzzug (translated into German; Leipzig: K. Wolff, 1914), by Marcel Schwob, trans. by Arthur Seiffhart (Gutenberg text)

• Spears of Destiny: A Story of The First Capture of Constantinople (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1919), by Arthur D. Howden Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade, by F. Marion Crawford (Gutenberg text)
• Alroy (modern critical edition, based on the 1871 and 1833 editions), by Benjamin Disraeli, ed. by Sheila A. Spector (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Alroy: or, The Prince of the Captivity (from an M. Walter Dunne edition, ca. 1904), by Benjamin Disraeli, illust. by Clare Victor Dwiggins (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Betrothed, by Walter Scott (Gutenberg text)
• The Boy Knight: A Tale of the Crusades, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text)
• Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades, by G. A. Henty (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)

• The Byzantine Background to the First Crusade (Toronto: Canadian Institute of Balkan Studies, 1996), by Paul Magdalino (HTML at deremilitari.org)

• The Jerusalem of Torquato Tasso (only the first book is translated in this edition; London: Printed by J. Bettenham, 1738), by Torquato Tasso, trans. by Thomas Hooke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Godfrey of Bulloigne: or, The Recoverie of Jerusalem, Done Into English Historicall Verse (London: A. Hatfield for J. Jaggard and M. Lownes, 1600), by Torquato Tasso, trans. by Edward Fairfax
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • some front matter missing: page images at HathiTrust
• Jerusalem Delivered (revised edition; New York and London: Co-Operative Publication Society, c1901), by Torquato Tasso, ed. by Henry Morley, trans. by Edward Fairfax
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Jerusalem Delivered (based on a 1901 edition), by Torquato Tasso, trans. by Edward Fairfax
  • HTML at mcllibrary.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem (6th edition, with notes, in 2 volumes; London: J. Dodsley, 1787), by Torquato Tasso, trans. by John Hoole
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: 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, by Jean Joinville, trans. by Ethel Wedgwood (HTML at Virginia)

• 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 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 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)

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