Contents
List of maps
List of figures
List of plates
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Principal Written Sources
3. The Medieval Hajj Route through Syria and Jordan
4. Early Ottoman Arabia and the Syrian Hajj Route
5. The Ottoman Hajj Route: Motivation and Ideology
6. Travelling on the Darb al-Hajj
7. Ottoman Fortification in Palestine and Transjordan
8. The Hajj Route in Syria
9. Catalogue of Hajj Forts in jordan
10. Catalogue of Forts in Saudi Arabia
11. Arabic and Turkish Inscriptions on the Darb al-Hajj
12. Excavations at Qal'at 'Unazia
13. Ceramics from at Qal'at 'Unazia and other Hajj Forts in Jordan
14. Finds from Qal'at 'Unazia and other Ottoman Forts on the Darb al-Hajj
15. Conclusions
Appendix 1 - Report Presented to His Highness Muhammad Ali Pasha, of Egypt, 1828
Appendix 2 - The Early Islamic Lintel from Qal'at al-Dab'a
Bibliography
Index