Kristina Richardson is Associate Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. She is the author of Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World (2012) and co-editor of a 16th-century Syrian weaver’s notebook (forthcoming). She also serves as an editor for the journal Der Islam.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Roma, Banu Sasan, and the Ghuraba’2. Sin: The Language of the Banu Sasan and Ghuraba’3. Gharib Literary Cultures in Mamluk Cairo4. Housing, Neighborhoods, and Cemeteries of Urban Ghuraba’5. Illustrated Astrological Books (Bulhans)6. A New Narrative of Premodern Afro-Eurasian Printing7. Ghuraba’ Astrologers and Print in 15th-Century Central EuropeAppendix 1: Appendix 2: Glossary NotesBibliographyIndex

In Roma in the Medieval Islamic World, Kristina Richardson offers a concise, groundbreaking volume that establishes a new, critical nexus between studies in Islamic social and material history and in Romani and Romani-like ethnicities and cultures.

Kristina Richardson is Associate Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. She is the author of Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World (2012) and co-editor of a 16th-century Syrian weaver’s notebook (forthcoming). She also serves as an editor for the journal Der Islam.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Roma, Banu Sasan, and the Ghuraba’2. Sin: The Language of the Banu Sasan and Ghuraba’3. Gharib Literary Cultures in Mamluk Cairo4. Housing, Neighborhoods, and Cemeteries of Urban Ghuraba’5. Illustrated Astrological Books (Bulhans)6. A New Narrative of Premodern Afro-Eurasian Printing7. Ghuraba’ Astrologers and Print in 15th-Century Central EuropeAppendix 1: Appendix 2: Glossary NotesBibliographyIndex

In Roma in the Medieval Islamic World, Kristina Richardson offers a concise, groundbreaking volume that establishes a new, critical nexus between studies in Islamic social and material history and in Romani and Romani-like ethnicities and cultures.

Kristina Richardson is Associate Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. She is the author of Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World (2012) and co-editor of a 16th-century Syrian weaver’s notebook (forthcoming). She also serves as an editor for the journal Der Islam.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Roma, Banu Sasan, and the Ghuraba’2. Sin: The Language of the Banu Sasan and Ghuraba’3. Gharib Literary Cultures in Mamluk Cairo4. Housing, Neighborhoods, and Cemeteries of Urban Ghuraba’5. Illustrated Astrological Books (Bulhans)6. A New Narrative of Premodern Afro-Eurasian Printing7. Ghuraba’ Astrologers and Print in 15th-Century Central EuropeAppendix 1: Appendix 2: Glossary NotesBibliographyIndex

In Roma in the Medieval Islamic World, Kristina Richardson offers a concise, groundbreaking volume that establishes a new, critical nexus between studies in Islamic social and material history and in Romani and Romani-like ethnicities and cultures.