Includes bibliographical references and index.

Two pieces of metalwork at the University of Michigan -- Les arts mineurs de l'Orient musulman à partir du milieu du XIIe siècle -- Trade with the East and the influence of Islamic art on the "luxury arts" in the West -- The shared culture of objects -- Epigrafika vostoka, a critical review -- A newly discovered illustrated manuscript of the maqamat of Hariri -- Notes on the iconography of the "Demotte" Shahname -- The illustrated maqamat of the thirteenth century : the bourgeoisie and the arts -- Pictures or commentaries : the illustrations of the maqamat of al-Hariri -- About an Arabic dioskorides manuscript -- Toward an aesthetic of Persian painting -- About two Mughal miniatures -- A preliminary note on two eighteenth-century representations of Mecca and Medina -- The inscriptions of the Madrasa-mausoleum of Qaytbay -- Isfahan as a mirror of Persian architecture -- Reflections on Mamluk art -- An exhibition of High Ottoman art -- The meanings of Sinan's architecture -- The many gates of Ottoman art -- The Crusades and the development of Islamic art -- Islamic architecture and the West : influences and parallels -- Patterns and ways of cultural exchange -- Europe and the Orient : an ideologically charged exhibition -- Classical forms in Islamic art and some implications -- Islamic art and architecture and the antique.