Rise of Islam and Caliphate Rule
The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach (Oxford Studies in Byzantium) by Gideon Avni
The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the ‘Abbasid Empire by Amira K. Bennison
The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Themes in Islamic History) by Jonathan P. Berkey
The Rise of Islam (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World) by Matthew Gordon
The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661-750 by G. R Hawting
The Early Abbasid Caliphate: A Political History by Hugh Kennedy
The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In by Hugh Kennedy
When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty by Hugh Kennedy
Islam in the Middle Ages: The Origins and Shaping of Classical Islamic Civilization (Praeger Series on the Middle Ages) by Jacob Lassner
The Ottomans and the Mamluks: Imperial Diplomacy and Warfare in the Islamic World (Library of Ottoman Studies) by Cihan Yüksel Muslu
The History of Jerusalem: The Early Muslim Period (638-1099) by Joshua Prawer
Byzantine Empire and Medieval Europe
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge
The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach (Oxford Studies in Byzantium) by Gideon Avni
The Crusader States by Malcolm Barber
The Byzantine Empire by Robert Browning
Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe by Robert Chazan
The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, 1000-1500 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) by Robert Chazan
The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades by Paul M. Cobb
Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages by Mark R. Cohen
Exclusiveness and Tolerance: Studies in Jewish-Gentile Relations in Medieval and Modern Times (Scripta Judaica, 3) by Jacob Katz
The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance (The Middle Ages Series) by Christopher MacEvitt
The Concise History of the Crusades (Critical Issues in World and International History) by Thomas F. Madden
The Crusades: A History by Jonathan Riley-Smith
A Short History of the Byzantine Empire (I.B. Tauris Short Histories) by Dionysios Stathakopoulos
Alienated Minority: The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe by Kenneth Stow
God’s War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman