Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
Editor: Paul Halsall
This page is a subset of texts derived from the three major online Sourcebooks listed below, along with added texts and web site indicators. For more contextual
information, for instance about Western imperialism, or the history of a given period,
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2ND
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WEB
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Contents
The Pre-Islamic Arab
World
Pre-Islamic Arabs
- Ancient Accounts of Arabia 430 BCE-550 CE
- Pre-Islamic Arabia: The
Hanged Poems, before 622 CE
- The Pre-Islamic poems of Imru-Ul-Quais, Antar, and Zuhair which Muhammad allowed
to remain hanging in the Ka'aba.
- 2ND Irfan Shahîd: Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century, Vll. Byzantinism and Arabism: Interactiion, 528-539 [At this Site]
- 2ND Irfan Shahîd: Rome and the Arabs: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs, 1984 full text PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
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2ND Irfan Shahîd: Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century, full text 1984 PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
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2ND Irfan Shahîd: Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century, full text 1989 PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
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2ND Irfan Shahîd: Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 1, Part 1, Political and Military History, full text 1995 PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
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2ND Irfan Shahîd: Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 1, Part 2, Ecclesiastical History, full text 1995 PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
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2ND Irfan Shahîd: Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 2, Part 1, Toponymy, Monuments, Historical Geography, and Frontier Studies, 2002 full text PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
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2ND Irfan Shahîd: Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 2, Part 2, Economic, Social, and Cultural History, full text 2010 PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
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2ND Philip K. Hitti: The Original Arab, The Bedouin [Was At Oneworld, now Internet Archive]
Pre-Islamic Persia
Muhammad and
Foundations - to 632 CE
Religious and Social Context of 7th Century Arabia
Muhammad
Islam Faith and Theology
General
The Sunni Tradition
- The Sunnah,
(traditions of the Prophet Muhammad), excerpts.
- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE): The Remembrance of Death and
the Afterlife
- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE): Munkidh min al-Dalal
(Confessions, or Deliverance from Error), c. 1100 CE
- Zamakhshari (1070-1143 CE): The Discoverer of Truth,
c. 1130 CE
- Shams al-Din al-Muqaddasi (d. 991): The Hadith of the 73 Sects, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (Algazel)(1058-1111 CE): The
Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife
- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (Algazel)(1058-1111 CE): Munkidh
min al-Dalal (Confessions, or Deliverance from Error), c. 1100
CE, full text.
- Zamakhshari (1070-1143 CE): The Discoverer of
Truth, c. 1130 CE
- Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328): The Question of Takfir (“Excommunication”), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328): On the Conditions and Permissibility of Praying behind “Heterodox” Muslims, (Hanbali/Sunni Muslim scholar on praying whit Shi'ites), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
The Shi'ite Tradition
- Ali ibn Abi Talib, the 4th Caliph (d. 661): Last Will and Testament of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Shaykh al-Mufid (d. 1022): Children of the First Ten Imams of Ahl al-Bayt according to Shaykh al-Mufid (d. 1022), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Abu al-Fida (d. 1331): On the Caliphate of al-Hasan b. Ali (d. 669), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Abu al-Fida’ (d. 1331): On Umar b. Abd al-Aziz’s Abolishment of the Public Cursing of Ali b. Abi Talib, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- ‘Umar b. ‘Ali b. al-Husayn (ca. 740): On the Ahl al-Bayt, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]Ali Hujviri (d. 1077): On al-Husayn b. Ali (d. 680), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 1505): On the Martyrdom of al-Husayn b. Ali (d. 680), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Muhammad b. Idris al-Shafi’i (d. 820): On the Martyrdom of al-Husayn b. Ali (d. 680), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Abu al-Hasan al-Ash’ari (d. 936): On the Battle of Karbala (680), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ali Hujviri (d. 1077): On Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (d. 732), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- al-Dhahabi: Biography of Muhammad al-Baqir (d. 732), from Siyar A’lam al-Nubala (c. 1340), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Muhammad b. ‘Alī al-Jawād al-Husaynī, 9th Imām of the Twelver Shi’i (d. 835): Wisdom Writing, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Isma’il ibn Ali al-Razi (d. 1054): On Umar b. al-Khattab’s Honoring of al-Hasan b. Ali and al-Husayn b. Ali, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ja’far al-Sadiq (d. 765): Advice to Musa al-Kadhim (d. 799), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Sultanu'l-Wa'izin Shirazi: Peshawar
Nights (1927), Full Text [At al-islam.org]
- 2ND A
Shi'ite Encyclopedia
Sufism
Islam as a Modern Faith
Women in Islam
-
The Qur'an: The Women [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
From Surah's 2 and 4.
- 27 Prominent Medieval Andalusi Women, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
Biographies of medieval Andalusi women are drawn from the Kitāb al-Ṣilah of Ibn Bashkuwal (d. 1183), the Takmilat Kitāb al-Ṣilah by Ibn al-Abbar (d. 1260), and the Kitāb Ṣilat al-Ṣila by Ibn al-Zubayr (d. 1308).
- Ibn Bashkuwal (d. 1183): Prominent Andalusi Muslim Women: A Short List from Kitab al-Silla, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- A Visit to the Wife
of Suleiman the Magnificent (Translated from a Genoese Letter), c. 1550
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Dining With The
Sultana, 1718
- Demetra Vaka: Aïshé Hanoum, c. 1888
Life of a Turkish woman.
- WEB Women in Islam [At Answering
Islam]
The website is a site devoted to arguments with Muslims. This web page contains links to
explanations, defences, and attacks on the subject of women in Islam.
- 2ND Sherif Abdel Azeem: Women In Islam Versus Women In the
Judaeo-Christian Tradition [At TWF]
Widely reproduced "defence" of women's role in Islam.
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2ND Anne Hardwick: From Muhammad to Present:
Islamic Law and Women [At Internet Archive, from Rhodes]
Critical.
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2ND Barbara Crossette: "A Manual on Rights of Women
Under Islam," New York Times, December 29, 1996 [At Internet Archive, from Mt Holyoke]
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2ND Ghada Barsoum: Polemics on the Veil in Egypt
Student paper on modern Egyptian debates. [At Internet Archive]
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2ND Douglas Jehl: "Egyptian Court Voids Ban on
Cutting of Girls' Genitals," New York Times, June 26, 1997 [At NY
Times]
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2ND John F. Burns: "Journal: Islamic Police Create
a Minefield for Women," New York Times, August 29, 1997 [At Internet Archive, from Mt
Holyoke]
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2ND Marelise Simons: "Cry of Muslim Women for
Equal Rights Is Rising," New York Times, March 9, 1998 [At Internet Archive, from Mt
Holyoke]
- Female Circumcision/Female Genital Mutilation
Islamic Expansion and
Empire
Conquests
- WEB Transmediterrane Geschichte (Transmediterranean History) [Univ of Konstanz] [Internet Archive backup here]
"Transmediterranean History" is an anthology of sources, with comments, intended to facilitate access to transmediterranean topics and their source documentation for researchers, teachers and interested parties. The wiki-based database provides source excerpts in the original and in translation, structured epochally and arranged chronologically. The texts are in original language with side-by-side German translation. Although one cannot yet rely on AI translation, the results of Google translation are quite satisfactory on this site, partly because the German translations are in uncomplicated German. Periods covered are: Before Arab-Islamic Expansion; Aran-Islamic Expansion (7th-9th centuries); New Neighbours (9th-11th centuries); Latin Christian Expansion (11-13th centuries).
- 2ND The
Battle of Badr, 624 CE [At Internet Archive, from islaam.com]
- Al-Baladhuri: The Battle of
The Yarmuk (636 CE) and After
The Byzantines lost control of Syria at Yarmuk.
- Accounts of the Arab
Conquest of Egypt, 642 CE
The Coptic account from The History of The Patriarchs of Alexandria and an Arab
account - Al-Baladhuri: The Conquest of Alexandria
- Ibn Abd-el-Hakem: The
Islamic Conquest of Spain
- Al Maggari: Tarik's
Address to His Soldiers, 711 CE, from The Breath of Perfumes
- Anonymous Arab Chronicler: The Battle of Poitiers,
732 CE
- Arabs, Franks, and the
Battle of Tours: Three Accounts 732 CE
- 2ND Fred Donner: The Early Islamic Conquests, (Princeton:
Princeton Univ Press, 1981), pp.251 ff - Chapter VI. "Conclusions: 1. Tribe and State
in Arabia: Second Essay"
- 2ND Judith Herrin: The Formation of Christendom.
"Byzantium Confronted by Islam", (Princeton: Princeton Univ, Press. 1987),
183-213
Governance and Government Institutions
The Caliphate
General
Government
- An Arab Ambassador in
Constantinople, (late 10th Century)
- Al-Tanûkhî: Ruminations
and Reminiscences, c. 980 CE
"The Table Talk of a Mesopotamian Judge"
- Yakut: Baghdad under
the Abbasids, c. 1000 CE
- Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masu'di (Masoudi) (ca. 895?-957 CE): The Book of Golden Meadows,
c. 940 CE
Masu'di - "the Arab Suetonius" or "the Arab Herodotus" -
specialized in a history which went beyond chronology to look at themes and individual
anecdotes. This is an extensive selection on various caliphs.
- Ibn-Miskawaih: The
Experiences of the Nations, c. 980 CE
Powerplays in the Abbasid court.
- Al Biruni (973-1048 CE): The Existing Monuments or
Chronology, c. 1030 CE
One of the earlist Arabic historians.
- 2ND Gaston Wiet: Baghdad: Metropolis of the Abbasid
Caliphate, (Norman OK: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 19?? ) Chap. 5
- 2ND J. Schact: "Law and Justice", in Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. II, pt. VIII/chap. 4, pp. 539 ff.
- The Khutba or Friday sermon, delivered in the al-Aqsa mosque immediately following the conquest of Jerusalem by Salah al-Din Yusuf b. Ayyub 1187, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
Science
Culture
- The Poets of Arabia,
Selections
- Al Hariri of Basrah (446-516 A.H./1054-1122 CE): Maqamat, (The
Assemblies), c. 1100 CE, 12 of the 50 "assemblies". Maqamat (singular Maqamah) were a popular sort of Arabic entertainment literature (adab).
This is perhaps the most popular example.
- The Women and Her Suitors story from the Thousand and One Nights [caution: very rude!]
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The
Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor story from the Thousand and One Nights [At
Sacred Texts]
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments, translated by Andrew Lang
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The Arabian Nights, translated Sir.
Richard Francis Burton. Full Text - Sacred Texts]
-
Ibn Fadlan. Risala 921 CE [At
VikingAnswerLady]
Ibn Fadlan -an Arab chronicler. In 921 C.E., the Caliph sent Ibn Fadlan with an embassy
to the King of the Bulgars of the Middle Volga. Ibn Fadlan wrote an account of his
journeys with the embassy, called a Risala. This Risala is of great value as a
history, although it is clear in some places that inaccuracies and Ibn Fadlan's own
prejudices have slanted the account to some extent.
-
The Nizámu'l Mulk (?-1092 CE) : On the Courtiers and
Familars of Kings
- Ibn Battuta (1307-1377 CE): Travels,
selections
- Ibn Battuta (1307-1377 CE): Travels in Asia and
Africa 1325-1354
-
2ND Arthur Goldschmidt: A Concise History of the Middle East. Chap. 8. "Islamic Civilization"
- 2ND Oleg Grabar: Ceremonial and Art at the
Umayyad Court. PhD Dissertation, Princeton Univ 1955. Chap. I. The Umayyad Royal
Idea and its Expression under Mu'awiyah I. pp 18 ff
- 2ND Oleg Grabar: The Formation of Islamic Art, (New Haven: Yale Univ Press, 19??), pp. 43- 71,.Chap. 3 "The Symbolic
Appropriation of the Land" chapter 3
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2ND S. M. Ghazanfar: The Islamic World and the Western
Renaissance [At Cyberistan].
Useful enough, but written with a chip on his shoulder by an economist.
Philosophy
- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111): On the Virtues of Learning and Teaching in the Islamic Tradition, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ibn Rushd (Averroës) (1126-1198 CE): Religion &
Philosophy, c. 1190 CE. The text is On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy,
or in Arabic Kitab fasl al-maqal, with its appendix (Damina). Appended is an
extract from Kitab al-kashf`an manahij al-adilla.
- Averroes/Ibn Rushd. (1126-1198 CE): Ibn Rushd’s Metaphysics PDF [At Muslim Philosophy] [Internet Archive version here]
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Islamic political
philosophy: Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Averroes [Local copy]
- Ibn Khaldun: The Muqaddimah, full text, trans. by
Franz Rosenthal [At Muslim Philosophy] [interent Archive version here]
- Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani: Biography of Ibn Khaldun (d. 808/1406), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ali ibn Musa al-Rida (d. 818): On the Perfection of the Intellect, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ibn Hazm (d. 1064): On Specialization of Knowledge, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ibn Hazm (d. 1064) On Pseudo-Scholars, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Emir Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri (d. 1883): On Critical Reasoning vs. Blind Emulation, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- WEB Islamic Philosophy Online
Gender and Sexuality in Classical Islam
Successor States: Umayyad Spain
- 2ND David J. Wasserstein: The Caliphate in the West, (Oxford: ClarendonPress, 1993), chap. 1. "The Caliphal Institution in al-Andalus
until 422/1031"
- Bibliography of Translated Texts from Medieval/Early Modern Iberia and North Africa [At Ballandalus][Internet Archive version here]
A non-exhaustive list of texts and documents from medieval/early modern Iberia and North Africa (covering roughly the period 500-1700) that have been translated into English. Maintained by Mohamad Ballan.
- Ibn Abd-el-Hakem: The Islamic Conquest of Spain .
- A Hispano-Muslim Embassy to the Vikings in 845: An Account of al-Ghazal’s Journey to the North, 845, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- ‘Abd Allah bin Buluggin, Emir of Granada 1073-90: Warfare in Eleventh-Century Spain (Al-Andalus), according to The Tibyan, trans translated by Amin T Tibi [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- ‘Abd al-Wahid al Marrakushi (13th Century): The Battle of Zallaqa, 1086 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- Zirid Emir Abdullah ibn Buluggin (d. 1090): On the Reputation of Dynasties, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Abu al-Walid ibn al-Hajj (d. 1318): The Reign of Ibn Hud (r. 1228-1238), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
The reign of Abū’Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Hūd al-Judhamī (r. 625–635/1228–1238), an Andalusi emir who controlled much of al-Andalus in the early 13th century following the weakening of the Almohads.
- The Poetry of the Spanish Moors, Selections
- Mawlid Poetry from the Morisco Period of al-Andalus (Commemorating the Birth of Mohammad), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Muslim accounts of warfare in al-Andalus [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- ‘Abd Allah bin Buluggin, Emir of Granada 1073-90: Warfare in Eleventh-Century Spain (Al-Andalus), according to The Tibyan, trans translated by Amin T Tibi [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- ‘Abd al-Wahid al Marrakushi (13th Century): The Battle of Zallaqa, 1086 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ismā‘īl ibn al-Aḥmar (d. 1407): The Expulsion of Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi (d. 1148) from Seville, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- 27 Prominent Medieval Andalusi Women, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
Biographies of medieval Andalusi women are drawn from the Kitāb al-Ṣilah of Ibn Bashkuwal (d. 1183), the Takmilat Kitāb al-Ṣilah by Ibn al-Abbar (d. 1260), and the Kitāb Ṣilat al-Ṣila by Ibn al-Zubayr (d. 1308).
- Ibn Bashkuwal (d. 1183): Prominent Andalusi Muslim Women: A Short List from Kitab al-Silla, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Lisān al-Dīn Muhammad b. ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Khaṭīb al-Salmānī (d. 1374): The Commemoration of the Martyrdom of al-Husayn b. Ali (d. 680) in al-Andalus, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
-
Al-Andalus Image Gallery [At
Hispanic Muslims]
- An Andalusi Muslim in Early Modern Europe: Shihab al-Din Ahmad al-Hajari’s Description of the 17th-Century Netherlands, trans Mohammed Ballam [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Royal Edict of Expulsion (1609) and the Last Andalusi Muslims (“Moriscos”) of Spain 1609, trans Mohammed Ballam [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here].
Successor States: Fatamid Egypt
Successor States: Mameluk Egypt
Successor States: North Africa/Maghreb
The Mongol Invasions
The Persians
Culture
- Firdausi: The Epic of Kings,
c. 1000 CE [At MIT]
-
Omar Khayyam: The
Rubiayat, c. 1120 CE, or another version, both
editions translated by Edward Fitzgerald.
- Omar Khayyam (d. 1123 CE): The Rubaiyat, c.
1120
This is not the famous translation by Edward Fitgerald, but a more complete version by
E. H. Whinfield.
- Omar Khayyam (d. 1123 CE): In Praise of Wine,
c. 1100
- Omar Khayyam (d. 1123 CE): The Vanity of Regret,
c. 1100
- Omar Khayyam (d. 1123 CE): The Cup, c. 1110
- Omar Khayyam (d. 1123 CE): Profession of Faith,
c. 1120
- Omar Khayyam (d. 1123 CE): The Wisdom of the
Supreme, c. 1120
- Nizami (1140-1203 CE): Khosru & Shireen, c.
1190 CE
- Sa'di (1184-1292 CE): Gulistan,
1258 CE, Full text, in short sections. [At MIT]
- Sa'di (1184-1292): The
Gulistan, c. 1256 CE. Translation by James Ross (1890)
- Sa'di (1184-1292 CE): The
Bustan
- Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273 CE): The Masnavi,
excerpts, c. 1250 CE
- Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273 CE): The Fairest Land, c.
1250 CE
- Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273 CE): Poems from the Divan-I
Shams-I Tabriz, c. 1270 CE
- Hafiz (1325-1389 CE): Verses
in Praise of God, c. 1370 CE
- Jami (1414-1492 CE): Joseph
and Zuleika, c. 1470 CE
-
WEB Isfahan Page
Safavids
The Turkish Irruption
Origins
Culture
The Ottomans
General
Conquests
Government
Society
- Sidi Ali Reis (16th Century CE): Mirat ul Memalik (The
Mirror of Countries), 1557 CE
A Turkish traveler's account of the world of India and the Middle East.
- Women
Ottoman Egypt
Culture
- Architecture
- Science and Technology
- Painting
- Poetry
Decline
The Expansion Eastwards
India
China
East Indies
Islamic Africa - Sub Sahara
-
WEB Islam
and Indigenous African Culture [At Internet Archive, from Harvard]
A clear narrative, and excellent maps on the penetration of Islam across the Sahara and in
East Africa.
- Abû Ûthmân al-Jâhiz: The
Essays, excerpts, c. 860 CE
On the Zanj (Black Africans). Arab Muslim opinions.
African States
African Islamic Culture
The Slave Trade
Interaction with the Latin Christian West
Crusades
- See Medieval Sourcebook:
Crusades for many sources on the Crusades.
- Usmah Ibn Munqidh (1095-1188): Autobiography: Excerpts on the
Franks, c.1175 CE.
-
Usmah Ibn Munqidh (1095-1188): On Muslim and
Christian Piety, 12th Century. [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
-
Usmah Ibn Munqidh (1095-1188): On European
Piracy, 12th Century. [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
- Pope Innocent III: License to Venice to Trade
With The Saracens, 1198
- 2ND Philip K. Hitti : The Assassins [At Drug
Library]
- The Tale of Two
Hashish-Easters (Traditional), and another Hasish Tale,
from Arabian Nights [At Drug Library]
- Al-Makrisi: Arab Account of
the Crusade of St. Louis
- A
Christian-Muslim Debate [12th Century]
- 2ND Hadia Dajani-Shakeel: "Some Medieval Accounts of
Salah al-Din's Recovery of Jerusalem (Al-Quds)" in Hisham Nashabe (ed) Studia
Palaestina: Studies in honour of Constantine K. Zurayk, Institute for Palestine Studies,
Beirut 1988.
Travelers
-
Anonymous: Guide-book
to Palestine. (c. 1350). Translated by. J. H. Barnard. London: Palestine
Pilgrims Text Society, 1894. [At Internet Archive was at Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado]
- John Poloner (1422): Description
of the Holy Land (c. 1421), based on the translation of Aubrey Stewart from the Tobler
text. London, 1894. [At Internet Archive was at Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado]
- Felix Fabri (1480 & 1483-84): The Book of the Wanderings of Felix
Fabri (Circa 1480-1483 A.D.) trans. Aubrey Stewart. 2 vols. London: Palestine
Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896 [At Internet Archive was at Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado]
- Pietro Casola (1494): Canon
Pietro Casola's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the Year 1494. trans. Mary Margaret Newett.
Manchester: The University Press, 1907. [At Internet Archive was at Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado]
The Western Intrusion
Napoleon
European 19th Century Imperialism
The Ottoman Empire in the Face of Western Power
Algeria
Arabia
Egypt
Iran
Libya
Morocco
Sudan
World War I
Islamic Nationalism
Arab Nationalism
British and French Diplomacy
Islam and Democracy
Algeria
Turkey
Pakistan
The Islamic World
Since 1945
General
- Islamic World: Country Studies
Prepared for Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. These are full descriptions of the countries
concerned, in terms of history, geography, economy, etc. There are also useful
bibliographies. [At LOC]
- Western Views of the Region
- Benjamin R. Barber: Jihad Vs.
McWorld, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1992 [At The Atlantic, subscription required][Added
7/23/98]
International Affairs/Organizations
Algeria
-
The Islamic Salvation Front National Provisional Executive Bureau:
Egypt
Iran
Iraq
Kurdistan
- Robert Kaplan: Sons
of Devils, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1987 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
On Kurdish identity.
- Laurie Mylroie: After
Saddam Hussein, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1992 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
On the Kurds in the Middle East.
Libya
Saudi Arabia
Syria
The Palestine/Israel Conflict
World War I and its Effects
The Politics and Culture of the Interwar Years
Establishment of Israel
Israeli Government
Wars
Peace Efforts
-
Israel's Peace Initiative, May 14, 1989 [At Jewish Virtual Library]
-
Invitation to Madrid Peace Conference,
October 30, 1991 [At Jewish Virtual Library]
-
Israel-PLO Recognition, September
9-10, 1993 [At Jewish Virtual Library]
-
Israel-Palestinian Declaration of
Principles, September 13, 1993 [At Jewish Virtual Library]
-
Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the
Jericho Area, May 4, 1994 - Preamble and Articles [At Jewish Virtual Library]
-
The Washington Declaration
(Israel-Jordan-US), July 25, 1994 [At Jewish Virtual Library]
-
Interim Agreement between Israel and
the Palestinians, September 28, 1995 [At Jewish Virtual Library]
Palestinian Organizations and Politics
Local Culture
Islamic History Maps
Origins, Expansion and Core Areas
- Satellite Map of the Middle
East (source unknown) [At Medieval Sourcebook]
-
The Middle East in the Sixth Century,
from R. Roolvink et al., Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957) [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
-
Muslim Expansion in the Time of Muhammad from R. Roolvink et al., Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957) [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
- Map of Muslim Expansion until A.D. 661, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981) [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
- The Growth of Muslim Power:
First 25 Years (BW) [At Medieval Sourcebook] Source: H.G. Wells, A Short
History of the World, (London: 1922)
- Muslim Expansion in the West in the Umayyad Period (661-750), from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981) [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
- The Muslim Empire: 750 CE (BW) Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922) [At
Medieval Sourcebook]
-
The Abbasid Caliphate (786-809)
from R. Roolvink et al., Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957)
[Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
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The Mediterranean in the Ninth Century from R. Roolvink et al., Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957) [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
- The Late Abbasid Caliphate c .900 CE,
from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
- The Muslim World c. 1300CE,
from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981) [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
- The Muslim World c. 1500CE,
from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981) [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
- The Middle East in the Nineteenth Century, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden,
1981) [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
Spain
Persia
Turks: Seljuqs and Ottomans
India and Far East
Crusades
- The First Crusade, 1099 (Col) A clickable map of all of Europe in 1099 Source: Adaptation of "Europe at the
time of the First Crusade", in Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern,
(London: 1911)
- The Crusader States in the
Early 12th Century (BW) Source: George Richard Potter, The Autobiography of Ousama,
(New York: 1929
- Crusader States, (Col)
Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, (London: 1911)
- Jerusalem, (Col)
Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, (London: 1911)
- Second and Third Crusades,
(Col) Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, (London: 1911)
Further Resources on
Islamic History
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- Guides to the Web
- Academic Pages
- General Interest Sites
- Muslim Sites
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