List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Note on the Contributors Introduction: Towards a Theory of Cultural Brokerage in Islamic Societies Uriel Simonsohn and Luke Yarbrough 'Those Who Follow the Guidance': Cross-Cultural Junctures in Early Islamic Documentary Conventions Eugenio Garosi Christians Facing the Rise of Islam in the Levant: Places of Worship, Building Materials and Figural Images Mattia Guidetti Transcultural Taste: Brokers of the Arab Cuisine Limor Yungman Moving beyond Post-Colonial Approaches: Grammar as an Item of Cultural Brokerage between Byzantium and the Islamic World (Seventh to Eleventh Centuries) Maria Mavroudi The Whirlpool at Work: Divine Attributes in a Polemical Milieu Sarah Stroumsa The Arabic Translation of the Ghazalian Naiat al-muluk : A Case Study in Intra-Cultural Brokerage Louise Marlow 'The Abode of Afrasiyab': Muslim Cultural Brokers in Mongol Qaraqorum Michal Biran Chinese Medicine as Tajriba in Medieval Iran: On Cultural Brokerage, Translation and Empire Jonathan Brack Cultural Brokers between Persianate and Arab Islam: Ajami-anafi Immigrants in the Mamluk Sultanate Or Amir The Cultural Brokerage of Nanjing's Muslim Scholars and the Formation of Islamic Society in Premodern China Hua Tao Trailing Clouds of Vagueness: On Cultural Transfers between Anthropology and History Dionigi Albera Cultural Brokerage: Macro-historical Fluctuations of a Communicative Infrastructure Daniel G. König Index.