Illustrations
Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud with
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt 3
Women selling produce in the
market 21
A tower in the city of Seville,
Andalusia 41
Photograph of an arabesque in
architecture 50
The Arabic alphabet 54
The Ibn Tulun Mosque,
Cairo 60
The Court of the Lions,
Granada 61
A man painting a ceramic
plate 64
A statue of Ataturk 69
Genealogy of Muhammad, the
caliphs and Shii imams 72
A mural showing Quran
verses 77
The al-Azhar Mosque 80
Bazaar in Morocco 97
A Muslim wedding
ceremony 104
Boats on the Nile River at
Aswan 110
Bookbinder in Cairo 112
Painting of a depiction of Al-
Buraq 118
Drawing of medieval
Cairo 122
Aerial view of Cairo’s City of
the Dead 132
Muslim family 136
Shrine of the Chishti Sufi
Order, India 140
St. Catherine’s Monastery and
mosque at Sinai 143
Movie billboards in Cairo,
Egypt 145
Coffeehouse in Cairo,
Egypt 155
Coptic Church, Cairo 167
Umayyad Mosque,
Damascus 180
Water containers on a street in
Cairo 194
Turkish meal 198
Female students at Hijaza
School, Upper Egypt 210
Modern Cairo 211European Muslim community
Center 218
Poster of the evil eye 220
Mosque of al-Hakim of the
Fatimid dynasty 232
Aerial view of Fez 237
Friday prayer service 243
Flags of Afghanistan, Iran,
Iraq, and Saui Arabia 244
Men baking bread 247
Kasbah Garden, Chefchaouen,
Morocco 256
Tomb of Chishti saint in Delhi,
India 301
Marketplace commerce 302
Excerpt from the Quran,
written in Arabic and
Hindi 307
Murals on the side of a
residential house 311
City of Husayniyya 318
Statue of Ibn Rushd,
Cordoba 337
Visitors at a Muslim shrine,
India 349
Man reading in his sitting
room, Iran 363xv