The Royal Asiatic Society, founded in 1823, was the main centre in Britain for scholarly work on Asia in the nineteenth century, and has been a publisher since 1829. The Muslim World 1100-1700: Early Sources on Middle East History, Geography and Travel is the second five-volume collection of RAS Classics reissued by Routledge in association with the Society. The first, Theology, Ethics and Metaphysics (978-0700-71670-8), was published in February 2003.