First edition 1931. Reprinted photographically ... from sheets of the first editon 1942, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1952.

Contains bibliographies.

Spain and Portugal, by J.B. Trend.--The crusades, by Ernest Baker.--Geography and commerce, by J.H. Kramers--Islamic minor arts and their influence upon European work, by A.H. Christie.--Islamic art and its influence on painting in Europe, by the late Sir Thomas Arnold.- Architecture, by M.S. Briggs.--Literature, by H.A.R. Gibb.--Mysticism, by R.A. Nicholson.--Philosophy and theology, by Alfred Guillaume.-- Law and society, by David de Santillana.--Science and medicine, by Max Meyerhof.--Music, by H.G. Farmer.--Astronomy and mathematics, by Baron Carra de Vauz.--Index.