1. Setting the scene : Bronze and Iron Ages -- 2. Greek and Roman Aleppo -- 3. In Antioch's orbit : Byzantine Aleppo in a world of churches and monasteries (353-637) -- 4. Transition to an Islamic order : Aleppo on a new frontier (637-947) -- 5. A delicate balance : between Turkic and Arab worlds (947-1097) -- 6. Fortress of Islam : Aleppo and the First Crusade (1098-1127) -- 7. Zengid Aleppo (1127-74) -- 8. Saladin and the Ayyubids (1174-1260) -- 9. A wider world opens : Aleppo under the Mamluks (1260-1516) -- 10. The first Ottoman centuries (1516-1750) -- 11. Modernising Aleppo (1750-2000)
