List of Figures, Plates, Charts, and Tables Foreword, by Ali S. Asani Acknowledgments Introduction: Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam, by Michael Frishkopf and Federico Spinetti Part One: Transregional 1. Listening to Islamic Gardens and Landscapes, by D. Fairchild Ruggles Part Two: The Ottoman Empire and Turkey 2. A Sound Status among the Ottoman Elite: Architectural Patrons of Sixteenth-Century Istanbul Mosques and Their Recitation Programs, by Nina Ergin 3. A Concert Platform: A Space for a Style in Turkish Music, by John Morgan O'Connell 4. Articulating Otherness in the Construction of Alevi-Bektasi Rituals and Ritual Space in a Transnational Perspective, by Irene Markoff Part Three: The Arab World 5. Venerating Cairo's Saints through Monument and Ritual: Islamic Reform and the Rise of the Architext, by Michael Frishkopf 6.

Nightingales and Sweet Basil: The Cultural Geography of Aleppine Song, by Jonathan H. Shannon 7. Aural Geometry: Poetry, Music, and Architecture in the Arabic Tradition, by Samer Akkach Part Four: Andalusia and Europe 8. Tents of Silk and Trees of Light in the Lands of Najd: The Aural and the Visual at a Mawlid Celebration in the Alhambra, by Cynthia Robinson 9. Aristocratic Residences and the Majlis in Umayyad Córdoba, by Glaire D. Anderson 10. Sounds of Love and Hate: Sufi Rap, Ghetto Patrimony, and the Concrete Politics of the French Urban Periphery, by Paul A. Silverstein Part Five: Central and South Asia 11.

Ideal Form and Meaning in Sufi Shrines of Pakistan: A Return to the Spirit, by Kamil Khan Mumtaz 12. The Social and Sacred Microcosm of the Kiiz Üi: Space and Sound in Rituals for the Dead among the Kazakhs of Mongolia, by Saida Daukeyeva Part Six: Iran 13. Listening to Pictures in Iran, by Anthony Welch 14. Of Mirrors and Frames: Music, Sound, and Architecture at the Iranian Zurkhaneh, by Federico Spinetti References Contributors Index.