Includes bibliographical references.

A mirror on the soul: Persian architectural glass / Patricia Baker -- The towers of Ghur. A Ghurid 'Maginot Line'? / Warwick Ball -- The pillar and the pictures: an interpretation of the 'Diwan-i Khass' at Fathpur Sikri / Barbara Brend -- An anthropomorphic glass rhyton / Stefano Carboni -- Taking a stand / John Carswell -- Beasts that roared: the Pisa griffin and the New York lion / Anna Contadini, Richard Camber, Peter Northover -- The use of grey in ceramics of the world of Islam / Yolande Crowe -- Fragments of drawing and paintings from Fustat / Edmond de Unger -- Achaemenid Indian gold / David Fleming -- Between Ghazna and Dehli: Lahore and its lost 'manara' / Finbarr B. Flood -- A painted wooden lid in the al-Sabah Collection in Kuwait / Ernst J. Grube -- The Ghurid tomb at Herat / Robert Hillenbrand -- The sculptures of the pre-Islamic 'Haram' at Makka / Geoffrey King -- The Samarra Bowl with the half-palmette animals reconsidered / Jens Kröger -- The Armenians of Kabul and Afghanistan / Jonathan Lee -- The Rabatak inscription and the nameless Kushan king / David W. MacDowall -- "Pem Nem": a 16th century Dakani manuscript / David Matthews -- Islamic glass bracelets: some hints from Fustat / George Scanlon -- Princes and heroes of Bandar-i Taheri -- a late Qajar fort and the "Shahnama" / Jennifer Scarce -- A manuscript of Mir-Ali al-Katib: a poem on the duties of prayer / Annemarie Schimmel -- The oval agate plate of the book cover of the Bamberg Apocalypse / Avinoam Shalem -- The tomb of Ghiyath al-Din at Tughluquabad: pisé architecture of Afghanistan translated into stone in Delhi / Mehrdad Shokoohy, Natalie H. Shokoohy -- The illustrations of Baghdad 282 in the Topkapi Sarayi Library in Istanbul / Eleanor Sims -- The ethnogenesis of the Pashtuns / Willem Vogelsang -- Echoes in a landscape -- Western Afghanistan in 1989 / Bruce Wannell -- Two ivory plaques in the British Museum / Rachel Ward -- A note on Hedwig glasses / David Whitehouse.