Preface . . 5
List of Illustrations . . 10
Contributors . . 12

Moshe Gammer Memorial Essay 
Why Daghestan is Good to Think: Moshe Gammer, Daghestan, and Global Islamic History . . 17

I. Pre- and Non-Islamic Written Cultures 
1. On the History of Writing in Caucasian Albania . . 41
2. Epigraphic Sources on the Jews of the Eastern Caucasus . . 55

II. Written Culture in Local Languages 
3. The Genesis of Arabic Script for Daghestani Languages . . 69
4. Studying the Literary Culture in the Languages of the Peoples of Daghestan: Problems and Perspectives . . 75
5. Six Unpublished Works in the Archi, Arabic and Avar languages . . 81

III. Arabic Written Culture 
6. Manuscripts by 'Abd al-Rahman Jami in Daghestan . . 123
7. Inscriptions on Manuscript Margins . . 129
8. Hasan al-Alqadari's Book Collection: A Thematic Survey . . 137
9. Jaridat Daghistan as a Record of the Written Culture of Daghestan . . 151
10. The Arabic Lithographic Books in Daghestan . . 175

IV. The Study of Arabic Written Culture 
11. Ignatii Krachkovskii and "Caucasological Arabistics" . . 185
12. The Manuscript Collections in Daghestan . . 201