Table of Contents
Prologue 1
Introduction: The Hidden 6
Chapter 1 Creating a Canon: Antiquity 15
Chapter 2 The Arabic Era: 637 to 1099 51
Chapter 3 Medieval Mingling: 1099 to 1244 77
Chapter 4 From Mamluk Patronage to Ottoman Occupation: The Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century 96
Chapter 5 Dragomans and Thieves: The Nineteenth Century 113
Chapter 6 Dreamers and Visionaries: Between Two Centuries 133
Chapter 7 Rescue and Return: The Twentieth Century 162
Epilogue: The Closed Gate 198
Notes 211
Acknowledgments 241
Index 245
Color plates follow page 88