GENERAL HISTORIES
TABARI Annales (ed. De Goeje and others), Leyden, 1879-1901; (French trans. made from the Persian version by Zotenberg, London, 1867-74).
MAS'OUDI Prairies d'or (Arabic and French), Paris, 1861-77.
IBN AL-ATHIR Chronicon (ed. Tornberg), Leyden, 1851-76.
IBN MISKAWAYH Tajarib al- Umam, ed. Caetani (Gibb Memorial Series, vol. vii.), 1909 and 1913; partein sextam .... ed. De Goeje, Leyden, 1871.
IBN AT-TIKTAKA Al-Fakhri (French trans. by Amar), Paris, 1910.
ABU'L-FARAJ Historia compendiosa Dynasliarum, ed. Pococke, Oxford, 1663.
OCKLEY, SIMON History of the Saracens, London, 1708-18.
WEIL Geschichte der Chalifen, Mannheim and Stuttgart, 1846-62.
FLUEGEL Geschichie der Araber, Leipzig, 1867.
MUELLER, AUGUST Der Islam, Berlin, 1885-7.
SEDILLOT Histoire des Arabes, Paris 1854.
CAETANI Annali dell' Islam, Milan, 1905 ff.
HUART Histoire des Arabes, Paris, 1912, 1913.
GIBBON Decline and Fall (ed. Bury), chaps. I. ff, London, 1901-2.
LANE-POOLE Mohammadan Dynasties, Westminster, 1894.
ALI, AMEER Short History of the Saracens, London, 1899.
VON KREMER Geschichte der herrschenden Ideen des Islams, Leipzig, 1868.
Kulturgeschichte des Orients unter den Chalifen, Vienna, 1875-7.
IBN KHALDUN Prolegomena (French trans. by MacGuckin de Slane), (Notices et Extraits, vol. xix.), Paris, 1872.
GOLDZIHER Muhammedanische Studien, Halle-a-S., 1888-90.
Vorlesungen ueber den Islam, Heidelberg, 1910.
VAN VLOTEN Recherches sur la domination arabe, Amsterdam,1894.
WÜSTENFELD Geschichtschreiber der Araber, Göttingen, 1882.
Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher, Göttingen,1840.
Uebersetzungen arabischer Werke im Lateinische, Göttingen,1877.
BROCKELMANN Geschichte der arabischen Literatur, Leipzig, 1901.
HUART Arabic Literature, London, 1903.
NICHOLSON Literary History of the Arabs, London, 1907.
STEINSCHNEIDER Arabische Uebersetzungen aus dem griechischen (in various periodicals), 1889-96.
LECLERC Historie de la Médecine arabe, Paris, 1876.
BOURGOIN Précis de l'Art arabe, Paris, 1892.
THE FIRST FOUR CALIPHS
CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL Essai sur l'histoire des Arabes, Paris, 1847.
NOELDEKE Die ghassanischen Fuersten, 1887.
ROTHSTEIN Die Dynastie der Lakhmiden, Berlin, 1899.
LAMMENS Le Triumvirat Abou Bakr, 'Omar et Abou 'Obaida (Mélange de la Faculté orientale de Beyrouth, vol. iv.).
KOSEGARTEN Tabaristanensis Annales (Extract from Tabari, Arabic and Latin), Greifswald, 1831.
SACHAU Der erste Chalife Abou Bekr, Berlin, 1903.
Ueber den zweiten Chalifen Omar, Berlin, 1902.
THE UMEIYADS
WELLHAUSEN Das arabische Reich und sein Sturz, Berlin, 1902.
BRÜNNOW Die Charidschiten unter den ersten Omayyaden, Leyden,1884.
NOELDEKE Zur Geschichte der Omayyaden, 1901.
LAMMENS Le Chantre des Omiades (Journal Asiatique, Series ix.,vol. iv.). Études sur le régne du caliph omaiyade Mo'awiya I (Mélanges de la Faculté orientate de Beyrouth), 1906.
PÉRLER Vie d'al-Hadjdjadj (Bibhothèque de l'École des hautes Études), 1904.
QUATREMÈRE Mémoire historique sur la vie d'Abd-Allah ben-Zobair (Journal Asiatique), 1832.
BECKER Studien zur Omajjadengeschichte (Zeitschrift für Assyiologie, vol. xv.).
THE 'ABBASIDS
VAN VLOTEN De opkomst der Abbasiden in Chorasan, 1890.
ZAIDAN Umayyads and Abbasids (English trans by D. S. Margoliouth), (Gibb Memorial Series, vol. iv.).
KREMER Ueber das Einnahmebudget des Abbasiden-Reiches (Denkschriften of the Academy of Vienna), 1888.
HERZFELD Samarra (archæological), Berlin, 1907.
MEHREN Exposé de la Réforme de l' Islamisme commencée au III éme siécle, Leyden, 1878.
DEFÉRMERY Mémoires sur les Emirs al-Oméra, Paris, 1848.
BARBIER DR MEYNARD Ibrahim fils de Mehdi (Journal asiatique), 1869.
AMEDROZ Buwaihid Rule in Bagdad (Journal of Royal Asiatic Society), 1901.
LE STRANGE Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, Cambridge, 1905.
Baghdad during the Abbaside Caliphate, Oxford, 1900.
THE FATIMIDS
DE GOEJE Mémoires sur les Carmathes du Bahrain et les Fatimides, Leyden, 1886.
WÜSTENFELD Geschichte der Fatimiden-Chalifen, Göttingen, 1881.
QUATREMÈRE Mémoires historiques sur la Dynastie des Khalifes Fatimides (Journal Asiatique), 1836.
CASANOVA Les derniers Fâtimides (Mémoires de la Mission archéologique du Caire, vol. xvi.).
NICHOLSON, JOHN 'Arib (an account of the establishment of the Fatemide Dynasty), Tuebingen, 1840.
GOTTHEIL A Distinguished Family of Fatimide Cadis (Journal of American Oriental Society), 1906.
DR SACY, SILVESTRE Exposé de la Religion des Druses, Paris, 1838.
HAMMER-PURGSTALL History of the Assassins (English trans. by 0. C. Wood), London, 1835.
ARABIA
KAY, H. C. Yaman, its Early Medieval History, etc. (texts of'Omara al-Yemeni, etc., and trans.), London, 1892.
PLAYFAIR History of Arabia Felix, Bombay, 1859.
AL-KHAZREJI History of the Resuli Dynasty of Yemen (text and trans. by J. W. Redhouse), (Gibb Memorial Series, iii.), 1906-13.
BADGER History of the Imams and Seyyids of 'Oman (trans. from the Arabic), London, Hakluyt Society, 1871.
BURCKHARDT Beduins and Wahabys, London, 1834.
CORANCEZ Histoire des Wahabys, Paris, 1840.
PALGEAVE Central and Eastern Arabia, London and Cambridge, 1865.
DOUGHTY Arabia Deserta, Cambridge, 1888.
ABD ER-RAHMAN ES-SA'DI Ta'rikh es-Sudan (History of the Sudan; text and French trans. by Houdas), Paris, 1900.
DARMESTETER Le Mahdi, Paris, 1885.
EGYPT AND SYRIA
IBN SA'ID Kitab al-Maghrib, Bk. iv. (text and German trans. By Tallqvist), Leyden, 1899.
AL-KINDI Governors and Judges of Egypt (Arabic text, ed. Guest), (Gibb Memorial Series vol. xix.), 1912.
MAKRIZI Histoire des Sultans Mamloûks (French trans. by Quatremère), 1837-45.
Histoire d'Égypte (French trans. by Blochet, 1908).
AMÉLINEAU Monuments pour servir à l'histoire de l'Égypte chrétienne, Paris, 1888-95.
JOHN OF NIKIU Chronicle (with French trans. by Zotenberg), (Notices et Extraits, xxiv.), Paris, 1883.
BUTLER The Arab Conquest of Egypt, Oxford, 1902.
ROORDA Tulunidarum primi vita, etc., Leyden, 1825.
MUIR The Mameluke or Slave Dynasty, London, 1896.
DE GOEJE Mémoire sur la conquête de la Syrie, Leyden, 1864.
BECHARD et PALMIERI L'Égypte et la Nubie (architectural), Paris, 1890.
LE STRANGE Palestine under the Moslems, London, 1887.
NORTH AFRICA
TORREY The Mohammedan Conquest of Egypt and North Africa, 1901.
PELLISSIER and RÉMUSAT Histoire de i'Afrique (Exploration scientifique l'Algérie), Paris, 1845.
CARETTE Recherches sur l'origine et les migrations des principles tribus de l'Afrique septentrionale, Paris, 1853.
FAGNAN Nouveaux Textes historiques relatifs à l'Afrique du Nord et à la Sicile, Palermo, 1910.
COUSIN et SAURIN Le Maroc, Paris, 1905.
MERCIER Histoire de l'Afrique septentrionale, Paris, 1888.
IBN ABI ZER' Raua al-Kartas (Histoty of Mauritania; ed., with Latin trans., by Tornberg), Upsala, 1843.
BEAUMIER Histoire des Souverains du Maghreb (Espagne et Maroc; traduit du Raud al Kartas), Paris, 1860.
WEFRANI Nuzhat al Hadi (Sa'di Sherifs of Morocco; text and French trans. by Houdas), Paris, 1888-9.
FAURE-BIGUET Histoire de l'Afrique septentrionale sous la domination musulmane (740-1830), 1905.
MACKENZIE The Khalifate of the West London, 1911.
SLAWI Kitab al-Istiksa (History of Morocco), Cairo, 1314 A.H. BUDGETT MEAKIN The Moorish Empire, London, 1899.
ROUTH Tangier, London, 1912.
LANE-POOLE The Moors in Spain, 1890.
PERSIA
MALCOLM History of Persia, London, 1815.
FRASER Historical and Descriptive Account of Persia, Edinburgh, 1834.
BROWNE Literary History of Persia, London, 1902-6.
SYKES History of Persia, London, 1915.
GUIGNES Histoire générale des Huns, Bks. x.-xii., Paris, 1756-8.
THE MUSLIMS IN EUROPE
SCOTT History of the Moors in Europe, Philadelphia, 1901.
REINAUD Invasion des Sarrazins en France, Paris, 1836.
ZOTENBERG Invasions des Visigoths et des Arabes en France (Histoire générale de Languedoc), Toulouse, 1876.
REY Les invasions des Sarrasins en Provence, Marseille, 1878.
IBN ABD-EL-HAKAM History of the Conquest of Spain (text and trans. by Jones), Göttingen-London, 1858.
MAKKARI History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain (English trans. by De Gayangos), London, 1840.
GONDÉ The Arabs in Spain (English trails. by Mrs Forster), London, 1854-6.
IRVING, WASHINGTON Conquest of Granada, London, 1829.
DOZY Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne, 711-1110, Leyden, 1861.
Recherches sur l'Histoire et la Litérature de l'Espagne, Leyden, 1881.
GOLDZIHER Die Shu'ubijja ... in Spanien, 1899.
IBN AL-KUTIYA Conquête de l'Espagne (with French trans. by Cherbonneau), 1853-7.
Conquête de l'Andalousie (with French trans. by Houdas), Paris, 1889.
ASCHBACH Geschichte der Omaijaden in Spanien, Frankfort-a-M., 1860.
ABD EL-WAHID MERRAKECHI Histoire des Almohades (French trans. by Fagnan), Alger, 1893.
SIMONET Descripción del Reino de Granada bajo la dominación de los Naseritas, Granada, 1872.
AMARI Biblioteca arabo-sicula, Rome 1880-1.
Storia dei musulmani di Sicilia, Florence, 1854-68.
THE CRUSADES
DERENBOURG Ousama ibn Mounkidh, a Syrian Emir (École des Langues orientalis vivantes), 1893.
Recueil des Historiens des Croisades (texts with French trans.), Paris, 1872 ff.
MICHAUD Bibliothèque des Croisades, Paris, 1829.
Histoire des Croisades, Paris, 1841.
STEVENSON The Crusaders in the East, Cambridge, 1907.
BRÉHIER L'Églisee et l'Orient au moyen âge, Paris, 1907.
KEIGHTLEY The Crusaders, London, 1847.
Chronicles of the Crusades, from contemporary narratives London, 1848.
MILLS History of the Crusades, London, 1822.
TURKS AND MONGOLS
HAMMER-PURGSTALL Geschichte des osmanisehen Reiches, Pesth, 1834-6; (French trans.), Paris, 1835-43.
JACOB History of the Ottoman Empire, London and Glasgow, 1854.
FRASER Turkey, Ancient and Modern, Edinburgh, 1854.
LANE-POOLE (assisted by E.J.W. GIBB and A. GILMAN) Turkey, London, 1888.
CREASY History of the Ottoman Turks, London, 1854-6.
GIBB History of Ottoman Poetry, London, 1900 ff.
HOWORTH History of the Mongols, London, 1876-8.
D'OHSSON Histoire des Mongols, Amsterdam 1852.
FADL ALLAH RASHID ED-DIN History of the Mongols, ed. by Blochet (Gibb Memorial Series xii. and xviii.).
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