Barnaby Rogerson
Rogerson's Book of Numbers: The Culture of Numbers---from 1,001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World
The Last Crusaders: The Hundred-Year Battle for the Center of the World
Marrakesh, Fez and Rabat
The Heirs of Muhammad: Islam's First Century and the Origins of the Sunni-Shia Split
North Africa (Traveller's History of North Africa)