This special issue comprises four studies presented at the international conference, Inscribed Objects in the Islamic World: Aesthetics, Adab, Societies, organised in Paris on 24 November 2017 by the above editors and co-financed by the Musée du Louvre and the Collège de France (Hugot Fondation). The conference was conceived as an extension to the documentation project of inscriptions on objects kept in the Department of Islamic Arts, Musée du Louvre (including objects deposited by the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris). This project was initiated in 2013 to gather published and unpublished data related to these inscriptions, describe them in a standardised way, and integrate them into the Musée du Louvre collection database, which has been accessible online since 2020.
