THE REFERENCED WORKS ARE the obvious starting point for any reader interested in further reading about the Assassins, the Mongols, the Saljuqs, the Fatimids and the other clans and individuals who have graced us with their presence in this slim volume. For those readers who wish to pursue their studies a little further the following works are suggested. Most are readily obtainable, but because of the relative immaturity of English language studies into both the Assassins, and particularly into the Fatimids, some could be considered ‘specialist’.
Amitai-Preiss, R. and Morgan, D. (eds), The Mongol Empire and its Legacy, Leiden, 2000.
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Bosworth, C., ‘The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World 1000–1217’, in Boyle, J. (ed.), The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume Five: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods, Cambridge, 1968.
Boyle, J., The Mongol World Empire 1206–1370, London, 1977.
Cahen, C., ‘The Mongols and the Near East’, in Setton, K. (ed.), A History of the Crusades, Volume Two, Madison, 1969, pp. 715–32.
Cahen, C., ‘The Turkish Invasion: The Selchukids’, in Setton, K. (ed.), A History of the Crusades, Volume One, Madison, 1969.
Chambers, J., The Devil’s Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe, London, 1979.
Cleaves, F. (trans.), The Secret History of the Mongols, Cambridge, MA, 1982.
Daftary, F., ‘A Short History of the Ismailis: Traditions of a Muslim Community’, Islamic Surveys Series, Edinburgh, 1998.
Daftary, F. (ed.), Medieval Ismaili History and Thought, Cambridge, 1996.
Daftary, F., The Isma‘ilis: Their History and Doctrines, Cambridge, 1990.
Daftary, F., ‘Ismailis in Medieval Muslim Societies’, Ismaili Heritage Series, Number Twelve, London, 2005.
Dauvillier, J., ‘Guilliame de Roubrouck et les Communautes Chaldeenes d’Asie’, in Histoire et Institutions des Eglises Orientales au Moyen Age, London, 1983.
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El-Azhari, T., The Seljuqs of Syria during the Crusades: 1070–1154, trans. Winkelhane, Berlin, 1997.
Fink, H. (ed.), Fulcher of Chartres: A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem 1095–1127, Tennessee, 1969.
Firro, K., A History of the Druzes, Leiden, 1992.
Gabrieli, F., Arab Historians of the Crusades, trans. Costello, E., London, 1969.
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Humphreys, R., From Saladin to the Mongols: The Ayyubids of Damascus 1192–1260, Albany, 1977.
Jackson, P., The Mongols and the West, 1221–1410, Harlow and New York, 2005.
Morgan, D., ‘The Mongols in Syria 1260–1300’, in Edbury, P. (ed.), Crusade and Settlement, Cardiff, 1985.
Morgan, D., ‘The Great Yasa of Chingiz Khan and Mongol Law in the Ilkhanate’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1986, pp. 163–76.
Peters, P., Jihad in Medieval and Modern Islam, Leiden, 1997.
Pipes, D., Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System, Yale, 1981.
Rashid al-Din, The Successors of Chinggis Khan, trans. Boyle, J., New York and London, 1971.
Saunders, J., The History of the Mongol Conquests, London, 1971.
Spuler, B., History of the Mongols, London, 1972.