- 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
Architecture
Janet L. Abu–Lughod, Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.
Nezar AlSayyad, Cities and Caliphs: On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Zeynep Çelik, The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Godfrey Goodwin, A History of Ottoman Architecture, London: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
Robert Hillenbrand, Islamic Architecture: Form, Function, and Meaning, New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Ali Modarres, Modernizing Yazd: Selective Historical Memory and the Fate of Vernacular Architecture, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 2006.
Gülrü Necipoglu, et al., The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Susan Slyomovics, The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib, London: Routledge, 2001.
