MICHAEL FRISHKOPF is a professor of music and Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology at the University of Alberta. He is the editor of Music and Media in the Arab World.

FEDERICO SPINETTI is a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Cologne. He is the editor of Giuseppe Donizetti Pasha: Musical and Historical Trajectories between Italy and Turkey.

• 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-Bektäi 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 Z¿rkh¿neh, by Federico Spinetti
• References
• Contributors
• Index