1. Bartlett, R. (1994) The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Change 950-1350 (Penguin)
2. Chamberlain, M. (2002) Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190-1350 (Cambridge University Press)
3. Cooperson, M. (2008) Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun (Cambridge University Press)
4. Daftary, F. & Meri, J. [Eds] (2003) Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam (I B Tauris)
5. Daftary, F. (2005) The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma'ilis (I B Tauris)
6. Edson, E., Savage-Smith, E. & Jones, T. (2004) Medieval Views of the Cosmos: Picturing the Universe in the Christian and Islamic Middle Ages (The Bodleian Library)
7. Euben, R. L. (2006) Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge (Princeton University Press)
8. al-Hassan, A. Y. & Hill, D. (1992) Islamic Technology: An Illustrated History (Cambridge University Press)
9. Hill, D. (1994) Islamic Science and Engineering (Edinburgh University Press)
10. Hodgson, M. (1977) The Venture of Islam: Volume 2 (Chicago University Press)
11. Hourani, G. F. (1995) Arab Seafaring: In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times (Princeton University Press)
12. Houben, H., G. A. Loud & D. Milburn [Trans.] (2002) Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler between East and West (Cambridge University Press)
13. Hughes, A. W. (2004) The Texture of the Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought (Indiana University Press)
14. Johns, J. (2007) Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: The Royal Diwan (Cambridge University Press)
15. Lanz, E. L. (2002) Marriage, Love and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Routledge)
16. Lapidus, Ira M. (2000) A History of Islamic Societies (Cambridge University Press)
17. Marlow, L. & Morgan, D. (2002) Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought (Cambridge University Press)
18. Menocal, M. R. (2003) The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (Little, Brown & Company)
19. Mottahedeh, R. (2001) Loyalty and Leadership in An Early Islamic Society (I. B. Taurus)
20. Nasr, S. H. (1987) Science and Civilization in Islam: Second Edition (The Islamic Texts Society)
21. Oldfield, P. (2009) City and Community in Norman Italy (Cambridge University Press)
22. O'Shea, S. (2007) Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World (Profile Books)
23. Pryor, J. H. (1992) Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649-1571 (Cambridge University Press)
24. Rosenthal, F. (2006) Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam (Brill)
25. Safi, O. (2006) The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry (University of North Carolina Press)
26. Turner, H. (1997) Science in Medieval Islam: An Illustrated Introduction (University of Texas Press)
27. Benjamin of Tudela, Adler M. [Trans] (2005) The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela: Travels in the Middle Ages (Nightingale Resources)
28. Ullmann, M. (1978) Islamic Medicine (Edinburgh University Press)
29. Watt, W. M. (1994) Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe: New Edition (Edinburgh University Press)

...and other books about Islam

1. Ahmad, S. M. (1992) Cartography of al-Sharif al-Idrisi, in J.B. Harley and David Woodward [Eds] (1992) The History of Cartography, Vol.2, Book 1, Cartography in the traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies, p.156-174 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)
2. Beeston, A. F. L. (1950) Idrisi's Account of the British Isles, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies XIII part 2 p.265-280 
3. Hunwick, J. (2003) Arab Views of Black Africans and Slavery www.yale.edu/glc/events/race/Hunwick.pdf downloaded 01/12/09
4. Oman, G. (1960) al-Idrisi, in The Encyclopaedia of Islam: New Edition (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 3: 1032-35)
5. Smith J. I. (1999) 'Islam and Christendom', in Esposito, J. L. [Ed] (1999) The Oxford History of Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

1. Heath, I. (1979) Byzantine Armies: 886-1118 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing)
2. Heath, I. (1985) Byzantine Armies: 1118-1461 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing)
3. Nicolle, D. (1995) Saladin and the Saracens: Armies of the Middle East, 1100-1300  (Oxford: Osprey Publishing)
4. Nicolle, D. (2001) The Moors: The Islamic West 7th–15th Centuries AD (Oxford: Osprey Publishing)
5. Nicolle, D. (2009) The Second Crusade 1148 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing)

1. Al-Akili, M. (1992) Ibn Seerin's Dictionary of Dreams According to Inner Islamic Traditions (Pearl Publishing, USA)
2. Bosworth, C. E. (2004) The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)
3. Ferdowsi, A. D. Davis [Trans] (2006) Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (London: Penguin)
4. al-Hariri [and Amina Shah] (1981) The Assemblies of Al-Hariri (London: Octagon)
5. Harvey, W. & Dawood, N. J. (2004) Arabian Nights: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin)
6. Hitti, P. (2000) An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades: Memoirs of Usamah Ibn-Munqidh: New Edition (Columbia: Columbia University Press)
7. Ibn Jubayr, M., R. Broadhurst. [Trans and Ed.] (1952/1990) The Travels of Ibn Jubayr (India: Goodword Books)
8. Irwin, R. (2006) The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature (London: Penguin)  
9. Komnene, A., E. R. A. Sewter [Trans] (2003) The Alexiad (London: Penguin Classics)
10. Lindsay, J (2005) Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (Oxford: Greenwood Press)
11. Ruthven, M. and Nanji, A. (2004) Historical Atlas of the Islamic World (Oxford: OUP)

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