Mariam D. Ekhtiar is senior research associate in the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Priscilla P. Soucek is John L. Loeb Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.Sheila R. Canby is Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge of the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Navina Najat Haidar is curator and administrator in the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"This publication is the most ambitious of its type for some years. Of the numerous surveys of Islamic art already available, this is probably the most comprehensive and scholarly while at the same time being quite accessible... With entries by a host of scholars of different nationalities, the task of achieving consistency must have required considerable editorial discipline. This has been achieved."--Apollo

Mariam D. Ekhtiar is senior research associate in the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Priscilla P. Soucek is John L. Loeb Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.Sheila R. Canby is Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge of the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Navina Najat Haidar is curator and administrator in the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"This publication is the most ambitious of its type for some years. Of the numerous surveys of Islamic art already available, this is probably the most comprehensive and scholarly while at the same time being quite accessible... With entries by a host of scholars of different nationalities, the task of achieving consistency must have required considerable editorial discipline. This has been achieved."--Apollo

Mariam D. Ekhtiar is senior research associate in the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Priscilla P. Soucek is John L. Loeb Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.Sheila R. Canby is Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge of the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Navina Najat Haidar is curator and administrator in the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"This publication is the most ambitious of its type for some years. Of the numerous surveys of Islamic art already available, this is probably the most comprehensive and scholarly while at the same time being quite accessible... With entries by a host of scholars of different nationalities, the task of achieving consistency must have required considerable editorial discipline. This has been achieved."--Apollo