Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- Geography -- Place Names -- Geomorphology -- Climate -- Flora and Fauna -- Chapter 1 -- People of the Desert -- Anchorites -- Uneasy Symbiosis -- Early Buildings -- Early Narrations -- Holy Wilderness -- Chapter 2 -- Justinian's Project -- The Monastic Ultimate -- Imperial Landscape -- Chapter 3 -- The Early Islamic Period -- The Age of Pilgrimage -- The Ottoman Period -- Place of Devotion -- Chapter 4 -- Sinai Questioned -- Orthodox Christianity -- Rapacious Scholars -- Sinai Represented -- Intrepid Tourists -- Object of Enquiry -- Epilogue
Notes -- List of Pilgrims and Travellers -- Image Credits -- Bibliography