A Concise History of the Middle East

504 ••• Bibliographie Essay

CHAPTER 6

For the period of the High Caliphate, see histories by Sir John Bagot Glubb: The
Empire of the Arabs (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963), The Course of Em¬
pire (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1965), and Haroon er-Rasheed and the Great
Abbasids (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976). Recent scholarly works include
C. E. Bosworth, The History of the Saffarids ofSistan (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Pub¬
lishers, 1994); Richard W. Bulliet, Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Es¬
say in Quantitative History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979);
Gerald R. Hawting, The First Dynasty of Islam, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2000);
Hugh Kennedy, The Early Abbasid Caliphate (London: Croom Helm; Totowa, NJ:
Barnes 8c Noble, 1981); Jacob Lassner, The Shaping of Abbasid Rule (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1980); Michael Morony, Iraq After the Muslim Conquest
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984); Roy Mottahedeh, Loyalty and Leader¬
ship in an Early Islamic Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980); and
Moshe Sharon, Black Banners from the East: The Establishment of the Abbasid State
(Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1985). Important for history as well as art is Oleg Grabar,
The Formation of Islamic Art, rev. ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987).
A good Web site is http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/worldreach/assets/docs/crusades/
BackArab.html, covering not only the High Caliphate but also linked to the Byzan¬
tine Empire and the Crusades.

CHAPTER 7

A good introduction to Turkish history is Clement Dodd's update to Roderic

Davison, Turkey, 3rd ed. (Huntingdon, UK: Eothen Press, 1998), to be supple¬

mented for the early period by Claude Cahen's Pre-Ottoman Turkey, trans.

J. Jones-Williams (London: Sidgwick & Jackson; New York: Taplinger, 1968). See

also a Turkish Web site in English: http://www.allaboutturkey.com.

The Crusades are amply treated from a Western point of view. Start with Hans

Eberhard Mayer, The Crusades, trans. John Gillingham (New York and Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 1972), followed by Steven Runciman's very readable His¬

tory of the Crusades, 3 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951-1954).

A Muslim perspective appears in Philip K. Hitti, ed. and trans., An Arab-Syrian

Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades (New York: Columbia Uni¬

versity Press, 1929; reprinted 1964). Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab

Eyes, trans. Jon Rothschild (New York: Schocken Books, 1985) is highly readable.

Among the many books on Salah al-Din, see Geoffrey Regan, Saladin and the Fall

of Jerusalem (London: Croom Helm, 1987).

You can pick up some background on the Mongols from René Grousset, The

Empire of the Steppes, trans. Naomi Walford (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univer¬

sity Press, 1970); Leo de Hartog, Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World (London: