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Launch of Visual Histories of IslamicCultures, a new monograph series for Islamic art and architecture.Theseries will be published by the well respected German publisher de Gruyter,and co-edited by Avinoam Shalem and Finbarr Barry Flood. The editors will beassisted by an advisory board comprised of international scholars in therelevant fields.Visual Histories of Islamic Cultures is the first professional academic bookseries devoted to the art, architecture and material culture of the Islamicworld that approaches cultural production as a series of interrelatedaesthetic rather than predominantly regional or religious phenomena. Theseries focuses on aesthetics, mobility, translatability and, conversely, onthe limits of both, the tensions between mobility and rootedness, and thetransformation of cultural forms and practices in translation. Seizing themoment of a growing interest in questions of mobility and the intersectionsbetween the global and the local, the series encourages approaches that movebeyond the traditional search for origins or influence to emphasize the roleof "Islamic" art as one of the main vectors in a global history of art. Theseries will mainly publish submissions in English that demonstrateinnovative scholarship of a high calibre; works dealing with areas orsubjects marginalized within canonical histories of Islamic art areespecially welcome. It will include monographs on relevant work in any mediafrom the beginnings of the Islamic period to the present as well as criticalapproaches to the historiography of the visual in both academic andmuseological contexts.Manuscripts and proposals should include a short (3- to 5-page) descriptionof the book, its significance and relevance to the fields(s) that itengages, a table of contents and a brief CV of the author(s)/editor(s). Theyshould be submitted to:Katja Richter,Editor, Art &#38; Music Division,Walter de Gruyter GmbHGenthiner Strasse 13D-10785 Berlin / Germanykatja.richter@degruyter.comAvinoam Shalem is Professor for History of Islamic Art and Architecture atMunich University and Max-Planck Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut inFlorence.Finbarr Barry Flood is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities atthe Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New YorkUniversity.http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&#38;list=H-Mideast-Medieval&#38;month=1307&#38;week=a&#38;msg=X89Ikjl%2bfuCd1iwnHt7XMQ