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January 2010
Reading Research for The Mapmaker:

Chamberlain, M. (2002) Knowledge and Social
Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190-1350 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press) -- argues historians have long imposed European concepts
on the study of Islamic medieval
history, and proposes the
household, rather than the state agency
or corporation, as the key locus of
power.

Harvey, W. & Dawood, N. J. (2004)
Arabian Nights: Tales from the Thousand
and One Nights (London: Penguin) --
selection of tales told by Shahrazad
over a thousand and one nights to delay
her execution by the vengeful King
Shahriyar.

Crossley-Holland, K. (1996) The
Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the
Vikings (London: Penguin) -- The
Scandinavian myths form a linked chain
of stories, creating a mighty,
fantastical world teeming with gods and
goddesses, tricksters, smiths and
magicians.

Hodgson, M. G. S. (1977)
The Venture
of Islam Volume 2: The Expansion of Islam in the
Middle Periods
(Chicago: Chicago University Press) --
In the second
of his three-volume magisterial work, Hodgson
investigates the establishment of an
Islamic civilization
during the middle period. Includes a
theoretical discussion of cultural
patterning in the Islamic world and the
Occident.
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