Reading Lists

Islamic History and Culture

General and reference works

  • Encyclopaedia of Islam [also available online at http://www.brillonline.nl/]
  • Cambridge History of Iran, vols. 5 & 6 [also available online at http://histories.cambridge.org/]
  • Cambridge History of Egypt [also available online at http://histories.cambridge.org/]
  • C.E. Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties [confined to library]
  • P.M. Holt, The Age of the Crusades [on reserve]
  • D. Morgan, Medieval Persia, 1040-1797 [on reserve]
  • C.K. Slack, Historical Dictionary of the Crusades [confined]
  • G.P.S. Freeman Grenville, Historical Atlas of the Middle East [confined]
  • H. Kennedy, An Historical Atlas of Islam [confined]

Tutorial and essay reading

 

Week 1

  • P.M. Holt, The Age of the Crusades (1986), pp. 1-15. [on reserve]
  • D. Morgan, Medieval Persia, pp. 1-7. [on reserve]
  • C.E. Bosworth, ‘Barbarian Invasions: The Coming of the Turks into the Islamic World’, in D.S. Richards (ed.), Islamic Civilisation, 950-1150 (Oxford, 1973). [on reserve]

 

Week 3

  • H.A.R. Gibb, ‘The Achievement of Saladin’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 35 (1952), pp. 44-60; reprinted in Gibb, Studies on the Civilization of Islam (1962), pp. 91-107. [on reserve]
  • P.M. Holt, The Age of the Crusades (1986), chs. 6 & 7 [on reserve]
  • R.S. Humphreys, From Saladin to the Mongols (1977), chs. 1 & 2
  • M.C. Lyons, Saladin: the Politics of the Holy War (1982), ch. 13 [on reserve]

 

Week 5

  • C.V. Findley, The Turks in World History (2005), pp. 77-92.
  • P. Jackson, ‘The Dissolution of the Mongol Empire’, Central Asiatic Journal 22 (1978), pp. 186-244 [on reserve]
  • D. Morgan, Medieval Persia 1040-1797 (1988), ch. 6 [on reserve]
  • J.J. Saunders, ‘The Nomad as Empire Builder: a comparison of the Arab and Mongol conquests’, Diogenes 13 (1965), pp. 79-103 [available online via http://www.jstor.org ]

 

Week 7

EITHER

  • D. Ayalon, ‘Mamlūkiyyāt’, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 2 (1980), pp. 321-49
  • Holt, Age of the Crusades, ch. 17 [on reserve]
  • R. Irwin, The Middle East in the Middle Ages (1986), ch. 1 [on reserve]
  • N. Rabbat, ‘The Changing Concept of Mamlūk in the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt and Syria’, in M. Toru and J.E. Philips (eds.), Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa (2000), pp. 81-98. [on reserve]

OR

  • C. Imber, The Ottoman Empire (2002), ch. 3 [on reserve]
  • H. Inalcik, The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300-1600 (1973), ch. 11 (‘The Palace’) [on reserve]
  • S. Vryonis, ‘Seljuk Gulams and Ottoman Devshirmes’, Der Islam 41 (1965), pp. 224-52. [available online via OLIS]

 

Formation of the Islamic World- items on reserve

Monographs

  • Arab seafaring… / Hourani
  • Bayt al-Maqdis: ‘Abd al-Malik’s Jerusalem / Raby, J. & Johns, J. (eds)
  • Bayt al-Maqdis: Jerusalem and early Islam / Johns, J. (ed.) (2 copies)
  • Ceramics from Islamic lands / Watson, O.
  • Cobalt and lustre / Grube, E.
  • The dome of the rock / Nuseibeh, S. & Grabar, O.
  • Early Islamic art and architecture / Bloom, J. (ed.)
  • The early Islamic monuments of al-Haram al-Sharif / Rosen-Ayalon, M.
  • Excavations in the south of the Temple Mount / Mazar, E. & Mazar, B.
  • The formation of Islamic art / Grabar, O.
  • From Byzantium to Sasanian Iran and the Islamic world / Ettinghausen, R.
  • The golden peaches of Samarkand: a study of T’ang exotics / Schafer, E.
  • The great mosque of Damascus / Flood, F.
  • The illustrated atlas of Jerusalem / Bahat, D.
  • Islam: art and architecture / Hattstein & Delius (eds)
  • Islam: from Baghdad to Cordoba / Stierlin, H.
  • Islamic architecture: form, function and meaning / Hillenbrand, R.
  • Islamic art / Irwin, R.
  • Islamic art and architecture / Hillenbrand, R.
  • Islamic art and architecture 650-1250 / Ettinghausen et al. (2 copies)
  • Islamic art in the Ashmolean Museum / Allen, J. (ed.)
  • Jerusalem: the holy city… / Peters, E.
  • Jerusalem: constructing the study of Islamic art, v.4 / Grabar, O.
  • Khirbat al Mafjar: an Arabian mansion in the Jordan Valley / Hamilton, R.
  • The medieval Islamic city reconsidered / Robinson, C. (ed.)
  • Mohammed, Charlemagne & the origins of Europe / Hodges, R. & Whitehouse, D.
  • The painted ceilings of the Cappella Palatina / Grube, E. & Johns, J.
  • Patterns of everyday life / Waines, D. (ed.)
  • Production and the exploitation of resources / Morony, M. (ed.)
  • Qusayr ‘Amra / Fowden, G.
  • Qusayr ‘Amra: residencia y baòos omayas… / Almagro, M. et al.
  • Sasanian and Islamic pottery from Ras al-Khaimah / Kennet, D.
  • Shanga: the archaeology of a Muslim trading community… / Horton, M.
  • The shape of the holy: early Islamic Jerusalem / Grabar, O.
  • A short account of early Muslim architecture / Cresswell, K.
  • The Temple Mount excavations in Jerusalem 1968-1978… v.2 / Mazar, E.
  • Trade and civilization in the Indian Ocean… / Chaudhuri, K.N.
  • Walid and his friends: an Umayyad tragedy / Hamilton, R.

Map

  • Beispiele islamische Städte: Samarra [available from Bodleian]