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1 Special Research Programme (SFB) 42 VISCOM Visions of Community: Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Region and Empire in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism (400–1600 CE), https://viscom.ac.at/home/ (04.12.2020), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) as a cooperation between the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2011–2019. The editors are grateful for the valuable assistance and feedback by a number of colleagues. They include all contributors as well as David Westacott (Vienna) for his efforts in copy-editing, the VISCOM team’s junior scholars, as well as this journal’s editors and its two anonymous reviewers. In addition, Christina Lutter extends her gratitude for relevant dialogues to Bernhard Jussen (Frankfurt) and Margareth Lanzinger (Vienna). Andre Gingrich acknowledges valuable exchanges with Maurice Godelier (Paris) and Eva-Maria Knoll (Vienna).