Introduction
How old are the earliest Middle Eastern primary sources?
How to read primary source documents
Main Body
Chapter 1: Primary Sources on the Life of Muhammad
Chapter 2: Biography of the Prophet Muhammad
Chapter 3: Debate over Muhammad as an historical figure
Chapter 4: The Early Arab Conquests
Chapter 5: Islamic Society in the Iberian Peninsula
Chapter 6: A History of the Abbasid Court
Chapter 7: A Short History of the Byzantine Empire
Chapter 8: Adab Literature of the Central Middle East
Chapter 9: Medieval Sunni Theological Writing
Chapter 10: Medieval Shi'ite Theological Writing
Chapter 11: Medieval Sunni Political Theory
Chapter 12: Medieval Mirrors for Princes Literature
Chapter 13: Travels of Ibn Battuta
Chapter 14: Sources on the Ottoman and Safavid Empires
Appendix
Ibn-Ishaq
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