The international seminar on Islamic Civilisation in Caucasia was organised under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan jointly by IRCICA and the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences. The symposium took place in Baku on 9-11 December 1998. This book contains twenty-eight research papers presented by specialists of the region's history. The first part of the book contains the papers in Azerbaijan Turkish and the second part those in Turkish or English.