Oleg Grabar
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Oleg Grabar is a historian and archeologist, specializing in the field of Islamic art and architecture.
Grabar obtained a Ph.d. from Princeton University in 1955. He served on the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1954-69, before receiving an appointment as professor at Harvard University. Grabar became Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in 1980 and stayed at Harvard until 1990, when he joined the Institute for Advanced Study. He has been Emeritus professor since 1998.
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- City in the Desert with Reneta Holod, James Knustad, and William Trousdale, Harvard University Press, (1978)
- Epic Images and Contemporary History: The Illustrations of the Great Mongol Shahnama (1982)
- The Mediation of Ornament (1992)
- The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem
- Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Post-Classical World, with Glen Bowersock and Peter Brown, Harvard University Press, (1999)
- The Art and Architecture of Islam 650-1250 (with Richard Ettinghausen and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, 2001)
- Interpreting Late Antiquity Essays on the Postclassical World edited with G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, Harvard University Press, (2001)
- Mostly Miniatures (2002)
- The Dome of the Rock, Harvard University Press, (2006)
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