Table of contents : Translator's Preface The Ottoman Empire to 1774. By Hans Joachim Kissling, translated and adapted by F. R. C. Bagley. Egypt and the Eastern Arab countries in the first three centuries of the Ottoman period. By F. R. C. Bagley North West Africa from the i5th-igth centuries. By Nevill Barbour Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, till the 19th century. By J. Spencer Trimingham, adapted by F. R. C. Bagley Irän under the Safavids and in the 18th century. By Hellmut Braun, translated and adapted by F. R. C. Bagley Central Asia: the last three centuries of independence. By Bertold Spuler, translated and adapted by F. R. C. Bagley India under the Moghol Empire. By Herbert Härtel, translated and adapted by F. R. C. Bagley Index (by Ursula Steier)