From the March 2023 Issue In the Land of the Waqwaq Tree Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos By Travis Zadeh LR
From the April 2019 Issue A Jihadist & a Gentleman The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin By Jonathan Phillips
From the March 2019 Issue Nursed on the Blood of Black Lambs Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires By Tim Mackintosh-Smith LR
From the July 2018 Issue There Be Despots Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia By Jürgen Osterhammel (Translated by Robert Savage) LR
From the September 2017 Issue Knight Fever The Templars: The Rise and Fall of God’s Holy Warriors By Dan Jones
From the February 2017 Issue Stealing with Style Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights By Paulo Lemos Horta LR
From the April 2016 Issue Eastern Promises This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World By Jerry Brotton LR
From the September 2015 Issue Onward Christian Administrators How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the Middle Ages By Christopher Tyerman LR
From the March 2003 Issue Percy of Persia Persia in the Great Game: Sir Percy Sykes, Explorer, Consul, Soldier Spy By Antony Wynn LR
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From the March 2011 Issue Consuls & Catwomen Time, a Falconer: A Study of Sarban By Mark Valentine LR
From the February 2010 Issue Last of the Moriscos Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain 1492–1614 By Matthew Carr LR
From the November 2009 Issue Onward Christian Soldiers Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades By Jonathan Phillips LR
From the July 2014 Issue View from the Minaret The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades By Paul M Cobb LR
From the September 2006 Issue Rancour and Revolt Setting the Desert on Fire: T E Lawrence and Britain’s Secret War in Arabia, 1916–1918 By James Barr LR
From the December 2011 Issue Return of the Mahdi? Saladin By Anne-Marie Eddé (Translated by Jane Marie Todd) LR
From the September 2012 Issue Church Militant The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c 1070–1309 By Jonathan Riley-Smith LR
From the November 2013 Issue Virgil among the Ottomans Homer’s Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East By Jerry Toner LR
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