- Note from Founder and Director of NYU Center for Dialogues
- Introduction
- Changing impressions: Muslim Voices: Arts and Ideas
- The Arts of Islam in the Eyes of the West: A Historical View
- Cultural exchanges: viewing history through gifts and commerce
- Gift exchanges: Harun al-Rashid and Charlemagne
- Gift exchanges: Venice and the Ottoman Empire
- Commerce: coins, jewelry, and other goods
- Commerce: twentieth-century changes
- Creative Lives Under Changing Circumstances
- Early Muslim Society
- The Post-Mongol Muslim World
- The Early Modern Muslim World
- The Muslim World in 1900
- The Muslim World Today
- The Arts of Islam: A Brief History
- A. Poetry and Song
- B. Quranic Chant
- C. Calligraphy
- D. Belles Lettres
- E. Music and Dance
- F. Theater
- G. Painting, Sculpture, and Design
- H. Architecture
- Islamic Art Today
- Conclusion
- Recommended Further Reading
General - Poetry and Prose: Arabic
- Poetry and Prose: Persian
- Poetry and Prose: Turkish
- Poetry and Prose: Urdu
- Quranic Chant
- Music and Song
- Calligraphy
- Painting and Design
- Architecture
- Theater and Cinema
- Dance
- Videologue
RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING
Poetry and Prose: Arabic
Saddeka Arebi, Women and Words in Saudi Arabia, New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Aida Abib Bamia, The Graying of the Raven: Cultural and Sociopolitical Significance of Algerian Folk Poetry, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2001.
The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, 6 vols., various editors, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984–2008.
Steve Caton, Peaks of Yemen I Summon: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
James T. Monroe, Hispano–Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2004.
Muhsin Jasim al–Musawi, The Postcolonial Arabic Novel: Debating Ambivalence, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003.
Muhsin Jasim al–Musawi, Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition, London: Routledge, 2006.
Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed., Modern Arabic Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed., Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, ed., Early Islamic Poetry and Poetics, London: Ashgate, 2009.
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre–Islamic Poetry and Poetics of Ritual, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Sabra Jean Webber, Romancing the Real: Folklore and Ethnographic Representation in North Africa, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
