Copyright © 2012 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Contributing authors: Elena Chardakliyska, Claire Moore, and Kendra Weisbin
Project Advisor: William Crow
Senior Managing Editor, Education: Merantine Hens
Senior Production Manager, Education: Donna Rocco
Website Managing Editor: Eileen Willis
Design of the printed resource by Rita Jules, Miko McGinty Inc.
Maps by Anandaroop Roy
Family guide design by Natasha Mileshina
Color separations by Professional Graphics Inc., Rockford, Illinois
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Web images prepared by Lucy Redoglia
Photographs of works in the Museum's collections are by the Photograph Studio of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. For all other images: Figs. 3–6, 21–24, 31 Walter B. Denny; figs. 11–14 calligraphy by Ahmed Fares Rizq and Abdul Rahman Mahmoud; fig. 15 Nicky Davidov photography, Israel Antiquities Authority; figs. 16, 18, 32, 54 Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair; fig. 19 © George V. Kelvin; figs. 25, 27 akg-images/Gerard Degeorge; fig. 26 courtesy of the American Numismatic Society; figs. 36–40 The Metropolitan Museum of Art; fig. 43 Art & Architecture Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; figs. 45, 47 Jon Thompson, after an image in the Prokhudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress; fig. 53 Scala/Art Resource, NY; fig. 55 bpk, Berlin/Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Stiftung Preussicher Kulturbesitz/Ruth Schacht/Art Resource, NY; fig. 56 Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY
English translations of the Qur'an included in this publication are from Arthur J. Arberry's The Koran Interpreted (New York, 1966).
