Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part i
AL-ANDALUS AND NORTH AND WEST AFRICA
(ELEVENTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES)
1 . Al Andalus and the Maghrib (from the fifth/eleventh century to the fall of the Almoravids) by
Marı´a Jesu´ s Viguera Molins;
2 . The central lands of North Africa and Sicily, until the beginning of the Almohad period by
Michael Brett;
3 . The Almohads (524 668/1130 1269) and the Hafsids
(627 932/1229 1526) by
Maribel Fierro;
4 . The post Almohad dynasties in al Andalus and the Maghrib
(seventh ninth/thirteenth fifteenth centuries) by
Fernando Rodrı´guez Mediano;
5 . West Africa and its early empires by
Ulrich Rebstock;
Part ii
EGYPT AND SYRIA (ELEVENTH CENTURY
UNTIL THE OTTOMAN CONQUEST)
6 . Bilad al Sham, from the Fatimid conquest to the fall of the
Ayyu¯bids (359 658/970 1260) by
Nnne Marie Edde;
7 . The Fatimid caliphate (358 567/969 1171) and the Ayyubids
in Egypt (567 648/1171 1250) by
Yaacov Lev;
8 . The Mamluks in Egypt and Syria: the Turkish Mamluk
sultanate (648 784/1250 1382) and the Circassian Mamluk
sultanate (784 923/1382 1517) by
Amalia Levanoni;
9 . Western Arabia and Yemen (fifth/eleventh century
to the Ottoman conquest) by
Esther Peskes;
Part iii
MUSLIM ANATOLIA AND THE OTTOMAN
EMPIRE
10 . The Turks in Anatolia before the Ottomans by
Gary Leiser;
11 . The rise of the Ottomans by
Kate Fleet;
12 . The Ottoman empire (tenth/sixteenth century) by
Colin Imber;
13 . The Ottoman empire: the age of ‘political households’
(eleventh twelfth/seventeenth eighteenth centuries) by
Suraiya Faroqhi;
14 . Egypt and Syria under the Ottomans by
Bruce Masters;
15 . Western Arabia and Yemen during the Ottoman period by
Bernard Haykel;
Part iv
NORTH AND WEST AFRICA (SIXTEENTH
TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES)
16 . Sharıfian rule in Morocco (tenth twelfth/sixteenth eighteenth
centuries) by
Stephen Cory;
17 . West Africa (tenth twelfth/sixteenth eighteenth centuries) by
Ulrich Rebstock;
18 . Ottoman Maghrib by
Houari Touati;
Part v
RULERS, SOLDIERS, PEASANTS, SCHOLARS
AND TRADERS
19 . State formation and organisation by
Michael Brett;
20 . Conversion to Islam: from the ‘age of conversions’ to the millet system by
Mercedes Garcıa Arenal;
21 . Taxation and armies by
Albrecht Fuess;
22 . Trade
22A Muslim trade in the late medieval Mediterranean world by
Olivia Remie Constable;
22B Overland trade in the western Islamic world
(fifth ninth/eleventh fifteenth centuries) by
John L. Meloy;
22C Trade in the Ottoman lands to 1215/1800 by
Bruce Masters;
23 . The ulama by
Manuela Marın

Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the western Islamic lands from the political fragmenta tion of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colo nialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. This volume embraces a vast area from al Andalus and North Africa to Arabia and the lands of the Ottomans. In the first four sections, scholars all leaders in their particular fields chart the rise and fall, and explain the political and religious developments, of the various independent ruling dynasties across the region, including famously the Almohads, the Fatimids and Mamluks, and, of course, the Ottomans. The final section of this volume explores the commonalities and continuities that united these diverse and geographically disparate communities, through in depth analyses of state formation, conversion, taxation, scholarship and the military.