Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine by Walker, Paul Ernest 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Fatimid institutions of learning -- Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate -- The Ismaili daʻwa in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim -- Another family of Fatimid chief Qāḍīs : the al-Fāriqīs -- A Byzantine victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971) -- The "crusade" of John Tzimisces in the light of new Arabic evidence -- Al- Maqrīzī and the Fatimids -- Purloined symbols of the past : the theft of souvenirs and sacred relics in the rivalry between the Abbasids and Fatimids -- "In praise of al- Ḥākim" : Greek elements in Ismaili writings on the Imamate -- Abū Tammām and his Kitāb al-Shajara : a new Ismaili treatise from tenth-century Khurasan -- An Ismaʻili version of the heresiography of the seventy-two erring sects -- Eternal cosmos and the womb of history : time in early Ismaili thought -- The doctrine of metempsychosis in Islam…”

THE LOST WORLD OF BYZANTIUM / by Harris, Jonathan

The histories by Chalkokondyles, Laonikos approximately 1430-approximately 1490 [De rebus Turcicis]

Travels in the history of architecture by Harbison, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Egyptian -- Greek -- Roman -- Byzantine -- Romanesque -- Gothic -- Renaissance -- Mannerism -- Baroque -- Historicism -- Modernism I: functionalism -- Modernism II: expressionism, constructivism and deconstruction.…”
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History of art the Western tradition by Janson, H. W. (Horst Woldemar) 1913-1982, Janson, Anthony F.

Table of Contents: “…The ancient world : Prehistoric art in Europe and North America -- Egyptian art -- Ancient near eastern art -- Aegean art -- Greek art -- Etruscan art -- Roman art -- Part II. …”

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