• Avinoam Shalem
• Art Historian; Riggio Professorship for the Arts of Islam
• Columbia University

Avinoam Shalem is an art historian. He holds the Riggio Professorship for the Arts of Islam at Columbia University in New York. He has published extensively on the arts of Islam, especially on ‘the art of the object’. His main field of interest is the global context of the visual cultures of the world of Islam, mainly in the Mediterranean, Near East, North Africa, Spain, South Italy and Sicily, medieval aesthetic thoughts on visual arts and craftsmanship, the image of ‘Islamic’ art, and the historiography of the field.