Dr. Sara Kuehn, Institute for the Study of Religions, University of Vienna. The main fields of research: sacred topography in an interreligious perspective; ritual and religion; cosmographies and imaginary journeys; angels and angelology; visual piety; devotional artefacts and religious material culture; migration and cross-cultural dimensions of objects, ideas and images. The main works: A Communion of Substances: Hybrid Creatures in Western Asia from 2500 BCE to 650 CE (forthcoming); Monsters as Bearers of Life-Giving Powers? TransReligious Migrations of an Ancient Western Asian Symbolism, with a Foreword by Lokesh Chandra. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Co-Published: D.K. Printworld, 2016; The Dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic Art, with a Foreword by Robert Hillenbrand, Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts 86, Brill: Leiden, Boston, 2011; Pilgrimage as Muslim Religious Commemoration: The Case of Ajvatovica in Bosnia-Herzegovina // Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe, eds. I. Flaskerud and R.J. Natvig, Ashgate: Ashgate Studies in Pilgrimage, 2016; “Ganymede and the Eagle”: Variations of an Airborne Theme in the Iranian World? Modes of Rendition of Spiritual Ascent in Iranian Tradition // The Visual World of Persianate Culture, ed. Y. Kadoi, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming); The Interplay of the Angels and the Prophet Muḥammad in the Earliest Images of the Prophet in Islamic Art // Comparative Medieval Angelology Volume, ed. J.-A. Greeley, Turnhout: Brepols (forthcoming).