General Middle Eastern History in 1899

Orientalism: Early Sources, Volume VII: The Arab Kingdom and Its Fall by Wellhausen, J.

A Literary History of Persia, Volume II: From Firdawsi to Saadi by Browne, Edward Granville

A Literary History of Persia, Volume IV: Modern Times (1500-1924) by Browne, Edward Granville

The Province of Damascus, 1723-1783 by Rafeq, Abdul-Karim

Arabia of the Wahhabis by Philby, Harry St John Bridger

The Middle East in the Middle Ages: The Early Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1382 by Irwin, Robert