- 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: Turkish
Ahmet O. Evin, Origins and Development of the Turkish Novel, Minneapolis: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1984.
Talat Said Halman, Contemporary Turkish Literature: Fiction and Poetry, Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980.
Nermin Menemencioglu and Fahir Iz, eds., Penguin Book of Turkish Verse, New York: Penguin, 1978.
