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The first volume in the Muslim Civilisations Abstracts series is an innovative reference catalogue of 200 annotated bibliographies and abstracts of encyclopedias published during the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Material is presented in English, Arabic and Turkish. Volumes in the series seek not only to represent the diversity of the Muslim world, but also to create access to and reinforce communication between scholars and institutions within the Muslim world; where the sharing of knowledge and information has often been hindered due to language barriers.

Contemporary political events have generated a strong interest in minorities in the Middle East.

The rich diversity of the Muslim world is strikingly expressed through its myriad of cities. This reference volume presents abstracts of scholarship examining socio-cultural and cosmopolitan processes with aspects of material culture in contemporary and historic urban contexts. The abstracts, in English, Arabic and Turkish, examine cities as built (architecture and urban infrastructure) and lived (urban social life and culture) environments. The important subject of urban growth in Muslim majority countries over the past fifty years is dealt with in the abstracts of recent works which discuss...