A Concise History of the Middle East

506 ••• Bibliographie Essay

On the literature of the Muslim peoples, see Edward G. Browne, A Literary His¬

tory of Persia, 4 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1928); Sir Hamil¬

ton Gibb, Arabic Literature: An Introduction, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press,

1963); Reynold A. Nicholson, A Literary History of the Arabs (New York: Scrib-

ner's, 1907); and James Kritzeck, Anthology of Islamic Literature (New York: Holt,

Rinehart, and Winston, 1964). Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah has been translated

into English in three volumes by Franz Rosenthal (New York: Bollingen, 1958)

and abridged by N. J. Dawood (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967). The

most readable introduction to Islamic art, profusely illustrated, is Ernst Grube's

The World of Islam (New York and Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1966).

Some of the technical achievements of Muslims can be gleaned from Andrew

M. Watson, Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World (Cambridge: Cam¬

bridge University Press, 1983); Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Science: An Illustrated

Study (London: World of Islam Festival, 1976); and Donald R. Hill, Islamic Science

and Engineering (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993).

CHAPTER 9

The textbook's history of firearms is based on Carlo M. Cipolla, Guns, Sails, and
Empire (New York: Minerva Press, 1965), and Hodgson, The Venture of Islam,
cited earlier.
The Il-Khanid phase of Mongol history is covered by Bertold Spuler in The Mon¬
gols in History (New York: Praeger, 1971). A readable introduction to the Mamluks
is Sir John Bagot Glubb, Soldiers of Fortune: The Story of the Mamlukes (New York:
Stein & Day, 1973). It should be followed by Daniel Pipes, Slave Soldiers and Islam:
The Genesis of a Military System (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981). A well-
documented British Muslim Web site on the Mamluks is http://muslimheritage
xom/uploads/mamluk.pdf. Beatrice Forbes Manz, The Rise and Fall of Tamerlane
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) treats early Timurid history, as
does http://www.geocities.com/ Athens/5246/Timur.html#timurid.html.
A comprehensive history of the Ottoman Empire, based heavily on Turkish
sources, is Stanford J. Shaw (with Ezel Kural Shaw in Volume 2), History of the Otto¬
man Empire and Modern Turkey, 2 vols. (London, New York, and Melbourne: Cam¬
bridge University Press, 1976-1977). Because this work may seem formidable to
beginners, let us suggest Jason Goodwin, Lords of the Horizon: A History of the Otto¬
man Empire (London: Chatto & Windus, 1998); Raphaela Lewis, Everyday Life in
Ottoman Turkey (London: Batsford; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1971); Justin
McCarthy, The Ottoman Empire: An Introductory History to 1923 (London and New
York: Longman, 1997); and Andrew Wheatcroft, The Ottomans (New York: Viking,
1993). The best general Ottoman Web site is http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/
OTTOMAN/CONTENTS.HTM.