The Cambridge illustrated history of the Islamic world / edited by Francis Robinson.

New York : Cambridge University Press, c1996.

xxiii, 328 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Their social ordering, their forms of knowledge and its transmission, and their expression in art, architecture and in the courtly arts and their modern developments. Particular emphasis is placed on the interrelationship between the Islamic world and the West - both share many of the same religious, intellectual and cultural roots. The book demonstrates that it is only recently that western ways came to dominate. Both civilizations owe much to one another.