Atsuyuki Okabe is Professor at the Department of Urban Engineering and Director of the Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo.

• Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introducing Geographic Information Systems in Islamic Area Studies Part 1: Spatial Data Construction and a Method for Preliminary Analysis 2. Constructing Spatial Databases from Old Paper Documents 3. Construction Spatial Databases from Old Maps: A Case in Historical Studies 4. An Exploratory Method for Discovering Qualitatively Changed Areas Using Low Resolution Remotely Sensed Data: A Case in the Persian Gulf Area during 1982-1993 5. Estimating Land Use using High Resolution Remotely Sensed Data (Landsat TM): A Case Study in Ponneri, India Part 2: Regional Analysis 6. Islamic Rule and Local Society in Eighteenth-Century South India 7. Modelling the Spatial Structure of the Administrative System in Ponneri, India, during the late Eighteenth-Century 8. The Ferghana Project: Central Asian Area Studies with GIS 9. The Use of GIS to Locate Abandoned Villages Listed in the Temettuat Registers of Balikesire County, Anatolia Part 3: Urban Analysis 10. The Spatial Structure of Commercial Areas in Turkey and other Islamic Countries 11. The Water Supplies and Public Fountains in Istanbul Part 4: Network Analysis with Space Syntax 12. Application of GIS to Network Analysis: Characterization of Traditional Turkish Urban Street Networks 13. A Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Street Network in Istanbul: An Extension of Space Syntax using GIS 14. The Space Occupied by Marketplaces and their Societies in the Islamic World - With Particular Reference to Isfahan and Istanbul Part 5: Three-Dimensional Spatial Analysis 15. Three-Dimensional View Analysis using GIS: The Locational Tendency of Mosques in Bursa, Turkey 16. An Analysis on the Visibility of Minarets in Sana's Old City of Yemen Index