Includes bibliographical references (p. 494-506) and index.

Islamic pottery: art, archaeology and collecting -- Making and designing -- Ceramic families and technical traditions -- Islamic pottery to A.D. 1000 -- Islamic pottery A.D. 1000-1400 -- Islamic pottery from A.D. 1400 -- Restoration and faking of Islamic ceramics: case histories / Kirsty Norman -- Unglazed wares -- Early "green-glazed" wares -- Early wares: polychrome glaze-painting -- Opaque white glazed wares -- Abbasid lustreware -- Splashed wares -- Slip-painted wares -- Buffwares -- Iranian incised wares -- Lustre pottery of the fatimid period in Egypt -- Syrian and Egyptian wares: 12th-13th century -- Iranian Fritware: 12th-13th century -- Bamiyan Fritwares -- Silhouette and underglaze painted wares: Iran 12th-13th century -- Iranian lustreware: 1170-1220 -- Minai enamel painting: Iran late 12th-early 13th century -- Wares of the Mongol period in Iran: 13th-14th century -- Syria and Egypt: 13th-14th century -- Egyptian wares: 15th century -- Ottoman Pottery: turkey 16th-18th century -- Later Iranian pottery: 15th-19th century -- Indian Mughal ceramics -- Chinese porcelain.