Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-350) and index.
Contents
The faith and the faithful : the lands and peoples of Islam / Bernard Lewis -- The man-made setting : Islamic art and architecture / Richard Ettinghausen -- Cities and citizens : the growth and culture of urban Islam / Oleg Grabar -- The mystic path : the Sf tradition / Fritz Meier -- Jewellers without words : the heritage of Islamic literature / Charles Pellat -- The dimension of sound : Islamic music--philosophy, theory and practice / A. Shiloah -- The scientific enterprise : Islamic contributions to the development of science / A.I. Sabra -- Armies of the prophet : strategy, tactics and weapons in Islamic warfare / Edmund Bosworth -- Moorish Spain : the golden age of Cordoba and Granada / Emilio García Gómez -- Land of the lion and the sun : the flowering of Iranian civilization / Roger M. Savory -- The Ottoman Empire : the rise and fall of Turkish domination / Norman Itzkowitz -- Muslim India : from the coming of Islam to independence / S.A.A. Rizvi -- Islam today : problems and prospects of the 19th and 20th centuries / Elie Kedourie.
