Foreword / Richard E. Toscan
Introduction / Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom
Gardens beneath which rivers flow : the significance of water in classical Islamic culture / Carole Hillenbrand
Control and abandon : images of water in Arabic poetry and gardens / Yasser Tabbaa
From the heavens and hills : the flow of water to the fruited trees and ablution fountains in the Great Mosque of Córdoba / D. Fairchild Ruggles
Sip, dip, and pour : toward a typology of water vessels in Islamic art / Linda Komaroff
Stones to bring rain? : magical inscriptions in linear Kufic on rock crystal amulet-seals / Venetia Porter
Charity and piety : Sabil-Kuttabs and the conception of water during the Mamluk period / Howayda al-Harithy
Art, infrastructure, and devotion : Ottoman water architecture / Walter Denny
Water on the ground : water systems in two Ottoman Greek port cities / Marcus Milwright and Evanthia Baboula
Drinking-water as message : the sabil of Muhammad 'ali Pasha in Cairo / Agnieszka Dobrowolska
Far from the desert : water traditions in the South Asian landscape / Catherine B. Asher
Paradise flooded : water and architecture in Bangladesh / Perween Hasan
Landscape and hardscape : historical problems and contemporary solutions to the scarcity of water in the Islamic world / Mohammad al-Asad.