Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Figures IX
5. Symbols used XI
6. Preface: Bringing the Ḥaram documents to light – A memoir 1
7. I Introduction: The making of a documentary corpus 20
8. II Arabic documents concerning Jerusalem, Bilād al-shām and Cairo 35
9. III Ottoman-language documents concerning Jerusalem and surroundings 100
10. IV Persian and Persianate documents concerning Transcaucasia, Anatolia and Northwestern Iran (including Georgian, Armenian and Arabic documents) 106
11. Appendix 1a: Edition of five Persian documents (Zahir Bhalloo) 153
12. Appendix 1b: Edition of five Arabic documents (Said Aljoumani) 171
13. Appendix 2: List of edited Ḥaram al-sharīf documents 185
14. Appendix 3a: List of the documents in order of catalogue entry number 193
15. Appendix 3b: List of the documents in order of Islamic Museum classmark 197
16. Bibliography 201
17. Index of persons (Arabic script) 205
18. Index of persons (Latin script) 211
19. Index of places (Arabic script) 215
20. Index of places (Latin script) 217