Sufism and sanctity : the genesis of the wali Allah in Mamluk Jerusalem and Hebron / Daphna Ephrat -- The prince who favored the desert : fragmentary biography of al-Nasir Ahmad (d. 745/1344) / Joseph Drory -- Al-Nabi Musa : an Ottoman festival (mawsim) resurrected? / Amnon Cohen -- Some remarks on the inscription of Baybars at Maqam Nabi Musa / Reuven Amitai -- Sign of the times : reusing the past in Baybars's architecture in Palestine / Hanna Taragan -- A fourteenth-century Jerusalem court record of a divorce hearing : a case study / Donald P. Little -- The hoax of the miraculous speaking wall : criminal investigation in Mamluk Cairo / Carl F. Petry -- Awlad al-nas in the Mamluk army during the Bahri period / Amalia Levanoni -- Popular Sufi sermons in late Mamluk Egypt / Boaz Shoshan -- Physicians in Mamluk and Ottoman courts / Miri Shefer -- Evliya Çelebi on imarets / Amy Singer -- Great fire in the metropolis : the case of the Istanbul conflagration of 1569 and its description by Marcantonio Barbaro / Minna Rozen and Benjamin Arbel -- Futuh-i Haramayn : sixteenth-century illustrations of the Hajj route / Rachel Milstein -- The forgotten province : a prelude to the Ottoman era in Yemen / Jane Hathaway -- Islam in the Sudan under the Funj and the Ottomans / Gabriel Warburg -- Observations on some religious institutions in Damiette and Faraskur in the eighteenth century / Daniel Crecelius -- The expropriation of the Pasha's peasants / Ursula Wokoeck.