Foreword and acknowledgements-- Outline of Islamic history-- Introduction / Faith and the faithful: the lands and peoples of Islam / The man-made setting: Islamic art and architecture / Cities and citizens: the growth and culture of urban Islam / The mystic path: the Sufi tradition / Jewellers with words: the heritage of Islamic literature / The dimension of sound: Islamic music-philosophy, theory and practice / The scientific enterprise: Islamic contributions to the development of science / Armies of the prophet: strategy, tactics and weapons in Islamic warfare / Moorish Spain: the golden age of Cordoba and Granada / Emilio Garcia Gomez-- 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 / Islam today / Epilogue / Chronological chart of Islam-- Select bibliograhpy-- Index.