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January 2010
Reading Now Research for The Mapmaker:

O'Shea, S. (2007) Sea
of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the
Medieval Mediterranean World
(Profile Books) An informed history of
the Med from the 7th-16th centuries, but
written with a travel writer's
sensibility, focusing on key places and
events in the relationship between the
two faiths.

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.

Reading Recently or Making Notes
Research for The Mapmaker

Watt, W. M. (1994)
The Influence of Islam on Medieval
Europe: New Edition (Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press).
traces the influence of Islam in
medieval Europe, looking in detail at
commerce, science and technology,
philosophy, and the development of
European self-awareness.

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.

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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