Contents -- Introduction -- Bibliography of D.S. Richards -- The word made visible: Arabic script and the committing of the Qur'ān to writing -- Caliphs and their chroniclers in the Middle Abbasid period (third/ninth century) -- A new text on Ismailism at the Samanid court -- A treatise on the Imamate of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mansūr bi-Allāh -- The imprisonment of Reynald of Châtillon -- A conversation on contemporary politics in the twelfth century: 'al-Maqāma al-Baghdādiyya' by al-Wahrānī (d. 575/1179) -- Les sources d'Ibn al-'Adīm sur le règne de Sayf al-Dawla en Syrie du Nord (333-356/944-967) -- An original Arabic document from Crusader Antioch (1213 AD) -- Yāqūt's interviewing technique: 'Sniffy' -- "Sirat al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh" by Ibn Nāhid -- Foot soldiers, militiamen and volunteers in the early Mamluk army -- Tribal feuding and Mamluk factions in medieval Syria -- The collapse of the Great Saljuqs -- Mamluk Sgraffiato ware: the power of the new -- De passage à Damas en 688/1286. Ibn al-Najīb et la transmission du savoir -- When is a fake a fake and how much does it matter? On the authenticity of the letter of the descendants of Muhammad b. Sālih to the descendants … -- Materials for the study of Arabic in the age of the early printed book -- Selected Index of Persons -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.