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Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter One. Introduction - Water Management in the Premodern Middle East: Forces from "Above" and "Below" - Josephine van den Bent, Maaike van Berkel, Edmund Hayes Chapter Two. Water, Wealth, and Inequality in the Roman World. Forces from "Above" and "Below" - Nathalie de Haan Chapter Three. Water Management in Early Islamic Medina: Infrastructure, Labour and Politics - Harry Munt; Chapter Four. An Environmental History of the Darb Zubayda: Towards a First Approximation - Peter J. Brown Chapter Five. The Infrastructure of Purity: Plumbing Advice from Hadith and Early Fiqh - Edmund Hayes Chapter Six. Baghdad's System of Water Provision: Infrastructure, Maintenance, and Decline in the City's First Two Centuries - Josephine van den Bent Chapter Seven. Fighting over Water: Everyday Water Issues in Late Buyid and Early Seljuq Baghdad (5th/11th Centuries) - Vanessa Van Renterghem Chapter Eight. Urban Crafts Associated with the Provision of Water in Islamic Syria - Marcus Milwright Chapter Nine. Traditional Water Harvesting in Mamluk and Early Ottoman Bilad al-Sham: The Family Cistern - Bethany J. Walker Chapter Ten. "From a Spring Where Allah's Servants Will Drink": Reassessing the Social Significance of Sabils in Mamluk-Era Cairo - Angela Isoldi Chapter Eleven. Cairo's Sabils during Egypt's Modern Period - Dina Ishak Bakhoum Chapter Twelve. Afterword - Alan Mikhail About the Authors