I | | The Arab Conquest, 639-641 | | 1 |
II | | A Province of the Caliphate, 641-868 | | 14 |
| | Tables of Governors and Chief Ministers | | 45 |
III | | Tulun and Ikhshid, 868-969 | | 59 |
IV | | The Shia Revolution, 969 | | 92 |
| | Table of Alleged Descent of Fatimid Caliphs | | 116 |
V | | The Fatimid Caliphs, 969-1094 | | 117 |
VI | | The Attack from the East, 959-1171 | | 158 |
VII | | Saladin, 1169-1193 | | 190 |
VIII | | Saladins Successors (the Ayyubids), 1193-1250 | | 212 |
| | Table of the Ayyubid Dynasties | | 212 |
IX | | The First Mamluks, 1250-1279 | | 242 |
X | | The House of Kala-Un, 1279-1382 | | 276 |
XI | | The Circassian Mamluks, 1382-1517 | | 323 |
| | Index | | 359 |