A History of Palestine, 634–1099 (Paperback)

Preface; Abbreviations; Glossary of Hebrew and Arabic terms; Introduction; 1. The conquest; 2. Islam strikes roots; 3. The local population and the Muslims; 4. The economy; 5. Palestine from the beginning of Abbasid rule to the Fatimids; 6. The Fatimid conquest: the war of sixty years and other events during the eleventh century; 7. The Christians; 8. The Jewish population and its leadership; 9. Karaites and Samaritans; 10. The Crusaders' conquest and the fate of Palestinian Jewry; Chronology; Indexes.