A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative scholarly references on the artistic, architectural, and cultural heritage of the Islamic world. Edited by distinguished historians Finbarr Barry Flood and Gülru Necipoğlu, this monumental two-volume work brings together the expertise of more than 70 leading international scholars to examine over 1,400 years of Islamic art and architecture across regions stretching from Spain and North Africa to the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China. Rather than presenting Islamic art as a single unified tradition, the book explores its remarkable diversity through regional histories, dynastic developments, artistic media, religious contexts, urbanism, patronage, and cross-cultural exchanges.

The volumes cover an extraordinary range of subjects, including mosques, madrasas, palaces, mausoleums, gardens, forts, manuscripts, calligraphy, miniature painting, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, carpets, glass, woodwork, architecture, ornament, geometry, urban planning, archaeology, and contemporary Islamic art. Major empires such as the Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, Seljuks, Mamluks, Ottomans, Safavids, Timurids, Mughals, and Andalusian dynasties are examined alongside regional artistic traditions and the influence of Islamic aesthetics on global art history. Combining rigorous academic research with extensive visual documentation, maps, architectural plans, and bibliographies, the work has become an indispensable reference for historians, architects, museum professionals, researchers, students, and anyone interested in Islamic visual culture. It is widely regarded as one of the definitive reference works in the field of Islamic art history.