Islamic Art and Architecture in the European Periphery: Crimea, Caucasus, and the Volga-Ural Region * Edited by BARBARA KELLNER-HEINKELE, JOACHIM GIERLICHS, and BRIGITTE HEUER
Journal: Journal of Islamic Studies
Year: 2010

Writing in the preface to this collection of papers—the adapted proceedings of an international symposium held in Berlin in 2004—the editors convey some of the difficulties which they negotiated while midwifing the volume through to publication. First at the conference itself, and then during the sifting of written submissions, they encountered among their contributors not only that wide range of ‘diverse academic backgrounds’ which one would expect of scholars gathered from across Europe, Turke