A concise introduction to Islamic literature
The book includes texts from the major Islamic literatures - Arab, Persian and Turkish – concerning Islamic theology and philosophy as well as about the flourishing of the sciences under Islam in the Middle Ages. For a reader wishing to delve further into these topics, there is a specific bibliography at the end of each chapter and a general bibliography at the end of the book. As a postscript the book also contains a text by Yiorgos Kyriakakis on music.