A history of Palestine, 634-1099
By: Moshe Gil ; translated from the Hebrew by Ethel Broido.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 968
Subjects: Islam -- Palestine -- History.; Jews -- Palestine -- History.; Palestine -- History -- 638-1917.
Work titles: Erets-Yiśraʾel ba-teḳufah ha-Muslemit ha-rishonah (634-1099). 1, ʻIyunim hisṭoriyim.
Notes: Revised translation of v. 1 of: Erets-Yiśraʾel ba-teḳufah ha-Muslemit ha-rishonah (634-1099).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 862-911) and index.
Table of contents: title: The conquest; title: Islam strikes roots; title: The local population and the Muslims; title: The economy; title: Palestine from the beginning of Abbasid rule to the Fatimids; title: The Fatimid conquest: the war of sixty years and other events during the eleventh century; title: The Christians; title: The Jewish population and its leadership; title: Karaites and Samaritans; title: The crusaders' conquest and the fate of Palestinian Jewry.