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Ibn Tulun: His Lost city and Great Mosque

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The Making of the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World

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Through the Palace Keyhole

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Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The Botanical Legacy

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The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt’s Medieval and Modern Appliqué Craft

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Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean

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Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan

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Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts

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The Mercantile Effect: Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World during the 17th and 18th Centuries

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Orientalist Lives: Western Artists in the Middle East, 1830–1920

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Printed in Beirut

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A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut

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