First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Part One: Classical Concepts of Territory; From Dar al-Hijra to Dar aI-Islam: The Islamic Utopia; On the Burial of Martyrs in Islam; Solidarity in an Islamic Society: (A'saba, Family, and the Community; The Land of Love: Rumi's Concept of Territory in Islam; Part Two: Muslims in the Face of Dar al-Harb; Migration and Islamization in the Early Islamic Period: The Arab-Byzantine Border Area; Territorial Disputes Between Syrian Cities and the Early Crusaders: The Struggle for Economic and Political Dominance; Part Three: Transformation of the Concept of Territory; Territorial Expansion and Contraction in the Malay Islamic Traditional Polity as Reflected in Contemporary Thought and Administration; Writing the Boundary: Khitat al-Sham by Muhammad Kurd 'Ali