Reproducing over 140 objects and including 142 illustrations all in full colour. Featuring items of glass, ceramics, weaponry, carpets, jewelry, books and many more besides. This is the New York Metropolitan Museum's definitive book on Islamic art from as early as the 8th century till the mid-twentieth. Spanning the empires of Mamluk Egypt, Safavid Iran, Mughal India, Ottoman Turkey and all other areas that were touched by Islam, this artbook gives the sweeping view of the many different styles and mediums Muslim artisans worked in.