Al-Jahiz in praise of books by Montgomery, James E.

A Baghdad chronicle by Levy, Reuben

Between revolution and state the path to Fatimid statehood : Qadi Al-Nuʻman and the construction of Fatimid legitimacy by Hamdani, Sumaiya Abbas

Imperial China and its southern neighbours

Table of Contents: “…-- Dragon Boats and Serpent Prows: Naval Warfare and the Political Culture of Chinas Southern Borderlands -- Inventing Traditions in Fifteenth-Century Vietnam -- Epidemics, Trade, and Local Worship in Vietnam, Leizhou Peninsula, and Hainan Island -- Southeast Asian Primary Products and Their Impact on Chinese Material Culture in the Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries -- New Evidence on the History of Sino-Arabic Relations: A Study of Yang Liangyao's Embassy to the Abbasid Caliphate -- The Peacock's Gallbladder: An Example of Tibetan Influence in Late Imperial China -- Transformation of the Yunnanese Community along the Sino-Burma Border During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- How the North Tried to Pacify the South Through Ritual Practices: On the Origins of the Guan Suo Opera in the Nineteenth Century -- Realms within Realms of Radiance, Or, Can Heaven Have Two Sons? …”

A history of Palestine, 634-1099 by Gil, Moshe 1921-

Table of Contents: “…The days of al-Mamun and his successors. The Abbasid caliphs and Jerusalem. The sixties of the ninth century. …”