• 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

Poetry and Prose: Persian

Ahmad Karimi–Hakkak, ed., An Anthology of Modern Persian Poetry, Boulder: Westview, 1978.

Minoo S. Southgate, ed., Modern Persian Short Stories, Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1980.

Soraya Sullivan, tr., Stories by Iranian Women Since the Revolution, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

Ehsan Yarshater and J.T.P. de Bruijn, eds., General Introduction to Persian Literature: A History of Persian Literature, London: I. B. Tauris, 2008.