Preface; Abbreviations; Glossary of Hebrew and Arabic terms; Introduction; 1. The conquest; 2. Islam strikes roots; 3. The local population and the Muslims; 4. The economy; 5. Palestine from the beginning of Abbasid rule to the Fatimids; 6. The Fatimid conquest: the war of sixty years and other events during the eleventh century; 7. The Christians; 8. The Jewish population and its leadership; 9. Karaites and Samaritans; 10. The Crusaders' conquest and the fate of Palestinian Jewry; Chronology; Indexes.
Moshe Gil's history of Palestine from the Muslim conquest to the Crusades was the first comprehensive survey of its kind.
'... it illuminates society in Palestine during this period. This is a major work of scholarship and we should be grateful that it is now available in English.' The Times Higher Education Supplement 'Gil shows himself a master of an enormous mass of Hebrew, Arabic Judaeo-Arabic and Syriac source material, and his book is, given its bulk, clearly laid out and easy to read ...' C. Edmund Bosworth, The English Historical Review
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