The following Tables of Mohammadan Dynasties have grown naturally out of my twenty years work upon the Arabic coins in the British Museum. In preparing the thirteen volumes of the Catalogue of Oriental and Indian Coins I was frequently at a loss for chronological lists. Prinsep's Useful Tables, edited by Edward Thomas, was the only trustworthy English authority I could refer to, and it was often at fault. I generally found it necessary to search for correct names and dates in the Arabic historians, and the lists of dynasties prefixed to the descriptions of their coins in my Catalogue were usually the result of my own researches in many Oriental authorities. It has often been suggested to me that a reprint of these lists would be useful to students, and now that the entire Catalogue is published I have collected the tables and genealogical trees in the present volume.
Preface
Chapter 1 : The Caliphs
Chapter 2 : Spain
Chapter 3 : North Africa
Chapter 4 : Egypt and Syria
Chapter 5 : Arabia Felix (Yaman)
Chapter 6 : Syria and Mesopotamia (Arab Period)
Chapter 7 : Persia and Transoxiana (Persian Period)
Chapter 8 : The Seljuks (Western Asia)
Chapter 9 : The Atabegs (Seljuk Officers)
Chapter 10 : The Successors of the Seljuks in the West
Chapter 11 : The Mongols
Chapter 12 : Persia
Chapter 13 : Transoxiana
Chapter 14 : India and Afghnistan
Index to Rulers
