Dr. Sheila S. Blair

Dr. Sheila Blair was born in 1948 in Montreal, studied art history and sociology and gained a doctorate in art history and Near Eastern studies at Harvard. She has taught at various institutions, including the Pahlavi University in Shiraz (Iran), Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania, and has traveled widely through the Near East and Central Asia in pursuit of her research work. In addition to her own publications, she has co-authored numerous books and essays on Islamic art and architecture with her husband, Jonathan Bloom. Dr. Blair is now at Boston College where she and her husband are the Norma Jean Calder­wood University Professors of Islamic and Asian Art.

Dr. Jonathan M. Bloom

Dr. Jonathan Bloom was born in 1950 in New York, studied art history, specializing in Islamic art, and gained a doctorate from Harvard on early Fatimid’s architecture in North America and Egypt. He was assistant lecturer at the Institute for Art History in Harvard between 1981 and 1987 and taught as guest lecturer at such institutions as the University of California in Los Angeles at Yale University, and in Geneva and Bamberg. Dr. Bloom is not at Boston College where she and her husband are the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professors of Islamic and Asian Art. He has spent a number of years traveling, researching and publishing works with his wife, Sheila Blair.

The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800 (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor)
by: Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom
September 25, 1996 
 

Islamic Arts A&i (Art and Ideas)
by: Jonathan Bloom, Sheila S. Blair
April 24, 1997 
 

Islamic Inscriptions
by: Sheila Blair
December 01, 1998 

Robert Hillenbrand

Professor Robert Hillenbrand was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford; he has been teaching at the Department of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh, since 1971 and was awarded a chair of Islamic Art in 1989.

His travels have taken him throughout the Islamic world. He has held visiting professorships at Princeton, UCLA, Bamberg and Dartmouth College. He has written books on Imperial Images in Persian Painting, Islamic Architecture in North Africa (co-author), Islamic Art and Architecture and the prize-winning Islamic Architecture. Form, Function and Meaning (translated into Persian in 1998). He has also edited Proceedings of the 10th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants , The Islamic Book, The Art of the Saljuqs in Iran and Anatolia, Persian Painting from the Mongols to the Qajars and The 'Amiriya in Rada', The History and Restoration of a Sixteenth-century Madrasa in the Yemen and co-edited The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia. New Light on the Parthian and Sasanian Empires and Ottoman Jerusalem. He has also published over a hundred articles on aspects of Islamic art and architecture.

In 1977 he curated one of the largest exhibitions of Persian miniature painting ever held. His scholarly interests focus on Islamic architecture, painting and iconography, with particular reference to Iran and to Umayyad Syria .

He has served on the editorial boards of Art History, Persica, Asaph, Bulletin of the Asia Institute and Oxford Studies in Islamic Art , and on the Councils of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, British Research in the Levant, and the British Institute of Persian Studies (Vice-President) .

Marianne Barrucand

Prof Dr. Marianne Barrucand was born in 1941 in Freiburg (Saxony), gained her doctorate from Strasbourg in 1969, spent some years living in Rabat, where she was involved in research work, and since 1976 has taught Islamic art history and archeology at the Sorbonne in Paris. After qualifying as a lecturer in 1979 she gained her professorship there in 1985 and was direc­tor of the Arabic and Islamic Studies Department at the Sorbonne between 1989 and 1993. Prof Barrucand has held visiting professorships at various German universities and was the driving force behind the ERASMUS network for Arabic and Oriental studies. Between 1987 and 1991 she was a member of the Commission Nationale de Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and in 1997 became a member of the European Science Foundation. In 1989 she was commissioned by the CNRS to compile the international pho­tographic archive entitled "Mashreq-Maghreb. Archives photographiques du monde islamique," was scientific adviser to the "Les tresors du Caire fatimide" exhibition at the Insti­tut du Monde Arabe in Paris in 1996 and conducted an international colloquium, "I;Egypt fatimide. Son art et son histoire," at the Sorbonne in 1998. In 1999 Prof. Barrucand was cre­ated a member of the Legion d'Honneur.

Moorish Architecture: In Andalusia
by: Marianne Barrucand, Achim Bednorz
2002-11
 

Oleg Grabar

Prof Dr. Oleg Grabar was born in 1929 in Strasbourg, studied history, art history, and orien­tal languages at the Sorbonne and Harvard and gained a doctorate from Princeton in 1955. He began by teaching at the Universiry of Michigan, where he became professor of art history in 1964, then taught from 1969 at Harvard University and from 1990 to 1998 at the Insti­tute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. He has also taught as guest professor at Columbia University, New York University, the Institut du Monde, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the College de France. From 1964 to 1972 he led excavations of Qasr al-Hair al-Sharqi in Syria. Prof Grabar was a member of the management committees of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Art and Architecture, the Max van Berchem Foundation in Geneva, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the College Art Association, the Medieval Academy of America, the American Oriental Society, the Amer­ican Research Center in Egypt, the Middle East Studies Association, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and is also a honorary member of the German Archeological Institute, the Institute per gli studi del Medio e Estremo Oriente in Rome, the British Academy and the Austrian Academy of Science. Prof Grabar has set down the results of his research work on Islamic art history in numerous publications.

Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning
by: Ernst J. Grube, James Dickie, Oleg Grabar, Eleanor Sims, Ronald Lewcock, Dalu Jones, Gut T. Petherbridge
October 01, 1995
 

The Formation of Islamic Art, Revised and Enlarged
by: Oleg Grabar
September 10, 1987

The Mediation of Ornament
by: Oleg Grabar
January 24, 1995

The Shape of the Holy
by: Oleg Grabar
November 11, 1996

Mostly Miniatures : An Introduction to Persian Painting
by: Oleg Grabar
December 26, 2001

Markus Hattstein

Markus Hattstein was born in 1961 and has lived in Berlin since 1982. He has studied phi­losophy, sociology, Catholic theology, comparative religion, and Islam. Today he works as a freelance writer and publisher's reader.

Islam: Art and Architecture
February 01, 2001

The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom  - September 25, 1996

Islamic Art

Moorish Architecture in Andalusia
Marianne Barrucand, Achim Bednorz
 

Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction
Doris Behrens-Abouseif - The American University in Cairo Press, 1989.

Arabic Ornament
J. Collin - English translation by Sue Budden. Paris: Bookking International, 1995.
 

A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture
K.A.C. Creswell - Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1958.
 

A History of Religious Ideas. Volume 3
Mircea Eliade - Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985.
 

The Art and Architecture of Islam 650-1250
Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar - New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

The Formation of Islamic Art
Oleg Grabar - Revised and enlarged edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Mostly Miniatures : An Introduction to Persian Painting
Oleg Grabar - December 26, 2001

A History of Islamic Philosophy. Second edition.
Majid Fakhry -  New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.

Geometric Patterns from Islamic Art & Architecture
Field, Robert - Tarquin Publications, 1998.
 

A History of Ottoman Architecture
Godfrey Goodwin - London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1987.
 

Islamic Spain
L. P. Harvey - University Of Chicago Press; Reprint edition (November 1, 1992)

Sinan: Ottoman Architecture and Its Values Today
Godfrey Goodwin - London: Saqi Books, 1993.
 

Islamic Architecture: Form, Function, and Meaning
Robert Hillenbrand - New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
 

Islamic Art and Architecture.

Islamic Architecture
John D. Hoag -  Milan: Electra Editrice, 1977 (English edition).
 

Islamic Art in Context (Perspective) (Trade Version)
Robert Irwin - New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997.

Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950 : Holy Wisdom Modern Monument
Robert S. Nelson -  July 14, 2004

Mughal Architecture: An Outline of Its History and Development 1526-1858
Ebba Koch - Munich: Prestel, 1991

The Arabs in History
Bernard Lewis - New edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

The Emergence of Modern Turkey (Studies in Middle Eastern History)
Bernard Lewis - Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning
Ernst J. Grube, James Dickie, Oleg Grabar, Eleanor Sims, Ronald Lewcock, Dalu Jones, and Gut T. Petherbridge - 1995.

Dictionary of Islamic Architecture
Andrew Peterson - New York: Routledge, 1996.

Introducing Persian architecture (Library of introductions to Persian art)
Arthur Upham Pope  - 1971

Persian Architecture: The Triumph of Form and Color.
Arthur Upham Pope  - 1965

Arthur Upham Pope Introducing Persian Architecture
Arthur Upham Pope - 1982
 

The Art of the Islamic Tile
Venetia Porter - New York: Interlink Books, 1995.
 

Islamic Art (World of Art)
David Talbot Rice - February 01, 1985.
 

Turkey: From the Seljuks to the Ottomans (Taschen's World Architecture)
Henri Stierlin, Chris Miller - May 01, 1998.
 

Islam: Early Architecture from Baghdad to Cordoba.
Henri Stierlin - Taschen, 1996.
 

Ottoman Turkey (Architecture of the world)
Ulya Vogt-Gknil - Benedikt Taschen 1965.
 

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