The Khyber Pass a history of empire and invasion by Docherty, Paddy

Table of Contents: “…The first Persians -- Alexander the Great -- The Mauryan Empire -- Greeks and nomads -- The Kushans -- Sasanian Persians and white huns -- The first Muslims -- Genghis Khan and Timur -- Mughals and Sikhs -- The British Raj -- Pakistan…”

The rise of Islam

Table of Contents: “…Russell -- What happened to the Sasanian Hunt in Islamic art? / Robert Hillenbrand…”

The great empires of the ancient world

Table of Contents: “…The empire of New Kingdom Egypt, 1539-1069 BC / Bill Manley -- The Hittite Empire, 1650-1200 BC / Trevor Bryce -- The empires of Assyria and Babylonia, 900-539 BC / Marc Van De Mieroop -- The first Persian Empire, 550-330 BC / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- The Athenian Empire, 478-404 BC, 378-338 BC / Alastair Blanshard -- The empire of Alexander and his successors, 338-60 BC / Michael Sommer and Thomas Harrison -- The Parthian and early Sasanian Empires, c. 247 BC-AD 300 / Ted Kaizer -- The Roman Empire, 27 BC-AD 476 / Michael Sommer -- The early empires of South Asia, 323 BC-AD 500 / Robin Coningham and Mark Manuel -- The early empires of China, 221 BC-AD 220 / W. …”

Court cultures in the Muslim world seventh to nineteenth centuries

Table of Contents: “…Great estates and elite lifestyles in the Fertile Crescent from Byzantium and Sasanian to Islam -- 4. Court and courtiers: a preliminary investigation of Abbasid terminology in Muslim court cultures of the Middle Ages -- 5. …”

Non-Muslim provinces under early Islam Islamic rule and Iranian legitimacy in Armenia and Caucasian Albania by Vacca, Alison