The World Of Islam

Lavishly illustrated with examples drawn from the extraordinarily rich and varied canon of of Islamic art, this authoritative and wide-ranging volume explores every aspect of Islam – its social life, trade, mysticism, literature, music, science and warfare – at a time when Western interest in the Islamic world is growing as never before.

'A magnificent repository of love and learning … approaching its subject with such generosity and proportion that one feels the whole of Islamic art and learning has to be encapsulated within its covers'
The Times

'Scholarly and densely informative, beautifully and generously illustrated, a valuable and accessible work of general reference'
Financial Times