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Dear Colleagues:

We are in the process of launching a book project on the subject of Islamic calligraphy and architecture.

This book will differ from most past publications on the subject in that it will focus not purely on epigraphic content but rather on the relationship between content and form. More specifically, the book will analyze textual content, calligraphic style,  material, and architectural function in their mutual interactions. Please see the following for more details, including a tentative time table. The book will be in English, but contributions in other languages could be considered for translation.

We currently have a significant number of pledged contributors planning to write on the Ottoman Empire, but other areas are not as well covered as of now. In particular, we would enthusiastically welcome contributions on the Persianate World, Central Asia, China and India.

Whatever your specific interest, please let us know whether or not you would be interested in being part of this effort by 20 August 2010. The deadline for 300-word abstracts is September 10, 2010.  If you have any questions about your potential topic or see any problems, including the time table, please let us know.

Thanks and best regards,

Mohammad Gharipour and Irvin Cemil Schick

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The Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar is pleased to announce a call for contributions to its Occasional Paper series. CIRS publishes original research in a broad range of issues related to the Gulf region in the areas of international relations, political science, economics, and Islamic studies. Other topics of current significance also will be considered.

Call for Papers: The Historiography of Islamic Art Journal of Art Historiography

The editors seek submissions for a dedicated issue of the Journal of Art Historiography, inviting current research that reflects on and engages with the history and present state of the discipline of Islamic art history itself. Research predicated on material from any historical period and geographical area of the Islamic world is welcomed, provided the study also makes a conscious and sustained engagement with its own parameters. The study of Islamic art and architecture and its position within the wider disciplines of both Art History and Middle Eastern Studies has been under considerable scrutiny in recent years. An exponential increase in the volume of scholarship being conducted on Middle Eastern visual culture in the last decade in particular has left practitioners and observers alike seeking to understand the history of the discipline in addition to the histories of the objects it propounds. At this juncture, with new publications and dedicated exhibitions seeking to extend the historiographic discourse, the time is right for an interrogation of our field, from the intellectual legacies of earlier scholarship to current strands and future directions.