- 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
Theater and Cinema
Metin And, Karagöz: Turkish Shadow Theatre, Istanbul: Dost Yayinlari, 1975.
Mustafa Badawi, Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Peter Chelkowski, ed., Taziyeh: Ritual and Drama in Iran, New York: New York University Press, 1979.
David Currell, Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play, Ramsbury, Wiltshire: Crowood, 2008.
Hamid Dabashi, Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema, Washington, D.C.: Mage, 2007.
Gönül Dönmez–Colin, Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging, Reaktion Books, 2008.
M. R. Ghanoonparvar and John Green, Iranian Drama: An Anthology, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 1989.
Viola Shafik, Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, rev. ed., 2007.
Richard Tapper, ed., The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and Identity, London: I. B. Tauris, 2002.
