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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Editorial Introduction -- Body -- Bethany J. Walker: Introduction: The Physical World as a Social World -- People and the natural environment -- People and things -- Living with Nature and Things -- Sources cited -- Part One - Contributions to Environmental History -- Section One - Socialized Landscapes -- Anthony T. Quickel: A Medieval Garden City: Mamluk Cairo's Food Supplies and Urban Landscape -- Introduction -- Cairo's Urban and Edible History -- Mamluk Cairo's Bulk Food Supplies - Upper and Lower Egypt -- Foodstuffs from Afar -- Locally Grown - Food from Cairo's Immediate Environs -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Gül Şen: The Landscape of Southern Bilād al-Shām through the Eyes of the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Cosmographer Āşıḳ Meḥmed -- The Research on Menāẓır ül-ʿavālim -- Āşıḳ Meḥmed as a Traveler and Writer -- Menāẓır ül-ʿavālim (Views of Worlds): An Outstanding Compendium -- Transmission of Knowledge on Cosmography and the Environment from the Mamluks to the Ottomans -- 'Menāẓır ül-ʿavālim' in the Context of the Ottoman Geography and Cosmography -- How did Āşıḳ Meḥmed use his sources? -- Mamluk Sources at the Cosmographer's Disposal -- Landscapes of the Southern Levant in Menāẓır ül-ʿavālim -- Further components on the landscape of southern Bilād al-Shām in Menāẓır ül-ʿavālim -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Manuscript -- Editions, Translations -- Studies -- Christopher Braun: Equipped with Shovels, Pickaxes, and Books: Treasure Hunters and Grave Robbers in Medieval Egypt -- Introduction -- Treasure Hunting and the Authorities -- Treasure Hunting and Grave Robbery in the Arabic Sources -- Egypt: A Realm of Treasures -- The Treasure-Hunting Folk in Medieval Egypt -- The Maṭālib -- The 'Lords of the Maṭālib'.