ARTICLES:

Preface: George T. Beech Articles: Manuela Marín, "Biography and Prosopography in Arab-Islamic Medieval Culture: Introductory Remarks"; Claude Gilliot, "Prosopography in Islam: An Essay of Classification"; Luis Molina, "Classifying Scholarship: An Analysis of Biographical Texts from Ibn Harith's Akhbar al-Fuqaha' wa-l-Muhaddithin"; Miquel Forcada Nogués, "Investigating the Sources of Prosopography: The Case of the Astrologers of ‘Abd al-Rahman II"; Carl F. Petry, "Educational Institutions as Depicted in the Biographical Literature of Mamluk Cairo: The Debate over Prestige and Venue"; María Luisa Ávila, "The Search for Knowledge: Andalusi Scholars and Their Travels to the Islamic East"; Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, "Women's Names in Early Islamic Pro-Shi‘ite Texts on the Genealogy of the Talibiyyin"; Mohamed Meouak, "Prosopography of the Political Elites and the 'Sociography' of the Umayyad State of Cordoba"; Arie Schippers, "Prosopography of the Almoravid Addressees of Ibn Khafaja's Poems"; Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, "The Identification of Portuguese Muslims: Problems and Methodology"; Juan A. Souto, "Stonemasons' Identification Marks as a Prosopographical Source: The Case of Umayyad al-Andalus"

Review Article: Danuta Shanzer on Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century by Martin Heinzelmann, translated by Christopher Carroll

Reviews by Lorraine Attreed, George T. Beech, D'A. J. D. Boulton, Fredric L. Cheyette, Theodore Evergates, Stuart Jenks, Allen E. Jones, Amy Livingstone, Emma Mason, Ralph Mathisen, John Munro, Alan V. Murray, Robin S. Oggins, Joel T. Rosenthal, Kathleen Thompson

Varia: Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "Francesco Datini"; Fasti Ecclesiae Portugaliae, 1071-1325; Wanted: Two Back Issues of Medieval Prosopography