The Return of Wealth: A Study of Poverty and the Poor in the Islamic Near East, 600-1100. In preparation.

Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts. Co-edited with Amy Singer and Mine Ener. Submitted to SUNY Press.

Aristocratic Violence and Holy War: Studies on the Jihad and the Arab-Byzantine Frontier. New Haven: American Oriental Society Monograph Series, 1996.

Poverty in Medieval Islam, as editor and contributor. Collaborative volume, to appear in the series Handbuch der Orientalistik, published by E.J. Brill (Leiden).

Byzantium and the Islamic World, as editor. Collection of major articles in this field, with introduction and notes. To appear in series published by Variorum (London), under general editorship of L.I. Conrad.

A History of Islamic Society and Civilization, 600-1100. Textbook for introductory college-level courses in the history of the medieval Near East. Co-author, with R.P. Lindner and K.A. Luther. To be completed in summer of 1996. Under discussion with University of Michigan Press and McGraw Hill.

Articles:

"Algerian Voices, European Reactions: Examining Conflicts in Discourse, Information and Analysis." Journal of the International Institute 7.1 (September 1999): 16-17.

"`Umar b. al-Khattab." Encyclopaedia of Islam, second edition, 10: 818-21.

"Byzantines." Forthcoming in Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an.

"The Kitab al-kasb Attributed to al-Shaybani: Poverty, Surplus and the Circulation of Wealth." Forthcoming in Journal of the American Oriental Society 121.3.

"Märtyrer [Martyrs]: VII. Islam, " Forthcoming in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, fourth edition.

"Poverty and Charity in the Rise of Islam." Forthcoming in volume on Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts (see above under Books).

"Poverty and the Poor." Forthcoming in Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an.

"God's Camel: Competitive Gift-Giving and Feasting in Ancient Arabia and Early Islam." To be submitted.

"Definitions of Poverty and the Rise of the Muslim Urban Poor." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society series 3,6,3 (1996): 335-44.

"The Naming of the Frontier: `Awasim, Thughur, and the Arab Geographers." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 57.1 (1994): 17-24.

"Some Observations Concerning the Early Development of Jihad on the Arab-Byzantine Frontier." Studia Islamica 75 (1992): 5-31.

"Ja`c´il and Holy War in Early Islam." Der Islam 68.1 (1991): 45- 64.

"The Mint of Harunabad and al-Haruniyya, 168-171 H." American Journal of Numismatics, Second Series 1 (1989): 171-93.

"Al-Khalfa al-Mardi: The Accession of Harun al-Rashid." Journal of the American Oriental Society 108.1 (1988): 79-91.