Flood Finbarr B., Objects of Translation, Material Culture and Medieval “Hindu-Muslim” Encounter, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2009, 366 p.

If, still, there was a need to demonstrate the efficiency and indispensability of theory and thought to advance the study of visual forms, Finbarr B. Flood’s outstanding book on the Islamic material culture of pre-modern India offers an unquestionable proof of it. With a widely interdisciplinary methodology sustained by references to the most updated experts in cultural studies, Flood investigates a large spectrum of objects, from architecture, epigraphy and ivories to textiles, metalwork and...