This thematic issue of Itinerario brings together a selection of papers presented at the international conference Beyond the Islamicate Chancery: Archives, Paperwork, and Textual Encounters across Eurasia, which was held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna in early October 2018. The conference was the third instalment in a series of collaborations between the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Pittsburgh examining Islamicate cultures of documentation from different angles. Surviving precolonial and colonial chancery archives across Eurasia provide an unparalleled glimpse into the inner workings of connectivity across writing cultures and, especially, documentary practices. This particular meeting has attempted to situate what has traditionally been a highly technical discipline in a broader historical dialogue on the relationship between state power, the archive, and cultural encounters.

Itinerario的本期主题汇总了在2018年10月上旬在维也纳奥地利科学院举行的国际会议之外的精选论文，这些会议在《伊斯兰教义的超越：整个欧亚大陆的档案，文书工作和文本遭遇》上举行。奥地利科学院伊朗研究所与匹兹堡大学之间的一系列合作从不同的角度研究了伊斯兰的文献文化。在整个欧亚大陆，幸存的前殖民时期和殖民时期的总理档案为人们提供了无与伦比的瞥见，涵盖了书写文化尤其是纪录片实践中各种联系的内部运作。