The international seminar on Islamic Civilisation in Caucasia was organisedunder thepatronage of thePresident of the Republic of Azerbaijan, jointlyby 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.