Covering a range of media and a wide geographical spread, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean reveals how 19th-century artists in the Middle East and North Africa reckoned with new tools, materials, and tastes from local perspectives.

- This collection has been developed with course use in mind. Each of the essays is written with broad historical and cultural background as preparation for a more closely-focused study of individual topics. Front and back matter will also include maps, a timeline, and a glossary of terms. - The collection will offer coverage of aesthetic and cultural development in an area that is well-researched in terms of political history but not so in terms of art history. It also offers a selection of excellent work for nineteenth-century art instructors who seek to incorporate more global material in their survey courses. - The collection adds to the list's goals in its constructive engagement with an understudied era in an important field of Middle Eastern Studies, in its inclusion of metatextual material to help students and emerging scholars engage fully with the period, and in its clear and mostly jargon-free language. It also incorporates nearly 150 detailed color images to help the reader more fully engage with the subject. - The audience for the work is instructors of Islamic art courses and courses on nineteenth-century art, globalization, and Middle Eastern Studies.