Encounters: Medieval Islamic History in 50 Objects

This book comprises of fifty case studies and offers an innovative approach to the study of Medieval Islamic history, concentrating on the analysis of physical objects from the seventh to the eighteenth centuries and across most of the regions that make up the pre-Modern Islamic world.

Marcus Milwright is a British Academy Global Professor in the Department of History of Art, University of York (UK) and Professor of Islamic art at the University of Victoria (Canada). His research interests include the arts and archaeology of the Islamic world, traditional crafts practices, cross-cultural interaction in the Medieval period, and the history of medicine. Publications include A Story of Islamic Art (2023), The Queen of Sheba’s Gift: A History of the True Balsam of Matarea (2022) and The Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions (2016).