Books by David Ayalon

This work offers detailed information and assessments of the part played by the military in Islamic history. It ranges from the military reforms of Caliph al-Muctasim, through military slavery in Egypt and Syria, to Islam versus Christian Europe and the impact of firearms on the Muslim world.

This study of firearms analyzes the employment of such weaponry, dated more than 40 years after use in Europe, towards the close of the 1360s.