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Mediterranean

  1. Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean by Jessica L. Goldberg (1000 AD) - 759 pages
  2. Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World by Noel Malcolm (1500s AD) - 624 pages
  3. Peiresc's Mediterranean World by Peter N. Miller (1600s AD) - 684 pages
  4. The Mediterranean Medina by AA.VV., Ludovico Micara, Attilio Petruccioli & Ettore Vadini - 570 pages

Entire Continent Africa

  1. The Fortunes of Africa by Martin Meredith (3000 BC-2000 AD) - 784 pages
  2. African Dominion by Michael A. Gomez - 520 pages
  3. Africa's Development in Historical Perspective by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn & James A. Robinson (1000-2000 AD) - 858 pages
  4. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa by Robert O. Collins & James M. Burns - 677 pages

Christian Egypt

  1. Egypt from Alexander to the Copts by Roger S. Bagnall & Dominic W. Rathbone (332 BC-641 AD) - 436 pages
  2. Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route by Steven E. Sidebotham - 456 pages
  3. Social Networks in Byzantine Egypt by Giovanni Roberto Ruffini (500s AD) - 526 pages
  4. Darfur's Sorrow by M. W. Daly (1500s AD-2000 AD) - 582 pages
  5. Coptologia Journal Volume II, Coptologia Journal Volume XI, Coptologia Journal Volume XV, Coptologia Journal Volume XVII, Coptologia Journal Volume XVIII, Coptologia Journal Volume XIX by Prof. Fayek M. Ishak - 80 + 126 + 168 + 173 + 188 + 187 = 922 pages

Islamic Egypt

  1. The Canonization of Islamic Law by Ahmed El Shamsy (800s AD) - 480 pages - Shafi School
  2. The Epistle on Legal Theory by al-Shafii & Joseph E. Lowry (820 AD) - 544 pages - Shafi School
  3. Maimonides by Joel L. Kraemer (1138-1204 AD) - 640 pages - Egypt
  4. The Sword of Ambition by Luke Yarbrough & Uthman b. Ibrahim al-Nabulusi (1262 AD Egypt) - 478 pages
  5. Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded by Humphrey Davies & Yusuf al-Shirbini (1600s AD) - 465 pages
  6. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane & Jason Thompson - 620 pages

North Africa

  1. De Africa Romaque by Niccolo Mugnai - 586 pages
  2. Staying Roman by Jonathan Conant (439-700 AD)- 865 pages
  3. Disagreements of the Jurists by Devin Stewart & al-Qadi al-Numan (974 AD) - 496 pages
  4. Black Morocco by Chouki El Hamel (1500s-2000 AD) - 589 pages
  5. A History of Algeria by James McDougall - 804 pages

West Africa

  1. A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 by John K. Thornton - 560 pages
  2. The History of Islam in Africa by Nehemia Levtzion & Randall Pouwels - 601 pages
  3. A History of Nigeria by Toyin Falola & Matthew M. Heaton - 578 pages
  4. The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present by Aribidesi Usman & Toyin Falola - 670 pages

Central and Southern Africa

  1. Congo by David van Reybrouck - 656 pages
  2. A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition by Leonard Thompson - 512 pages
  3. The Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1840. by Richard Elphick & Hermann Giliomee - 646 pages
  4. Madagascar: The Eighth Continent by Peter Tyson - 615 pages