Oleg Grabar (November 3, 1929 – January 8, 2011) was Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University until his retirement and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He published more then 30 books and countless articles on a range of subjects. Among his best-known works are: Formation of Islamic Art, Illustrations of the Maqamat, The Alhambra, Great Mosque of Isfahan, Mediation of Ornament, Mostly Miniatures, Shape of the Holy, Dome of the Rock, Penser l'art Islamique, and Masterpieces of Islamic Art: The Decorated Page from the 8th to the 17th century. Grabar received many honors during his lifetime, including the Charles Lang Freer Medal in 2001 and, in 2010, the Chairman's Award at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture ceremony in Doha. He was the founding editor of Muqarnas.

• Oleg Grabar, K. A. C. Creswell and His WorkJulian Raby, Reviewing the ReviewersJ.W. Allan, New Additions to the New EditionRobert Hillenbrand, Creswell and Contemporary Central European ScholarschipEric Fernie, The History of Medieval Architecture from Carolingian to Romanesque: Criteria and Definitions from 1925 to the Present DayCyril Mango, Approaches to Byzantine ArchitectureJ.M. Rogers, Architectural History as Literature: Creswell’s Reading and MethodsJonathan M. Bloom, Creswell and the Origins of the MinaretJohn Warren, Creswell’s Use of the Theory of Dating by the Acuteness of the Pointed Arches in Early Muslim ArchitectureSheila S. Blair, Surveyor versus EpigrapherAlastair Northedge, Creswell, Herzfeld, and SamarraG.R.D. King, Creswell’s Appreciation of Arabian ArchitectureMark Horton, Primitive Islam and Architecture in East AfricaGloria Karnouk, The Creswell Library: A LegacyTeresa Fitzherbert, The Creswell Photographic Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, OxfordR.W. Hamilton, Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell, 1879–1974Note:R.D. McChesney, Postscript to “Four Sources on Shah ʿAbbas’s Building of Isfahan”

Oleg Grabar (November 3, 1929 – January 8, 2011) was Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University until his retirement and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He published more then 30 books and countless articles on a range of subjects. Among his best-known works are: Formation of Islamic Art, Illustrations of the Maqamat, The Alhambra, Great Mosque of Isfahan, Mediation of Ornament, Mostly Miniatures, Shape of the Holy, Dome of the Rock, Penser l'art Islamique, and Masterpieces of Islamic Art: The Decorated Page from the 8th to the 17th century. Grabar received many honors during his lifetime, including the Charles Lang Freer Medal in 2001 and, in 2010, the Chairman's Award at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture ceremony in Doha. He was the founding editor of Muqarnas.

• Oleg Grabar, K. A. C. Creswell and His WorkJulian Raby, Reviewing the ReviewersJ.W. Allan, New Additions to the New EditionRobert Hillenbrand, Creswell and Contemporary Central European ScholarschipEric Fernie, The History of Medieval Architecture from Carolingian to Romanesque: Criteria and Definitions from 1925 to the Present DayCyril Mango, Approaches to Byzantine ArchitectureJ.M. Rogers, Architectural History as Literature: Creswell’s Reading and MethodsJonathan M. Bloom, Creswell and the Origins of the MinaretJohn Warren, Creswell’s Use of the Theory of Dating by the Acuteness of the Pointed Arches in Early Muslim ArchitectureSheila S. Blair, Surveyor versus EpigrapherAlastair Northedge, Creswell, Herzfeld, and SamarraG.R.D. King, Creswell’s Appreciation of Arabian ArchitectureMark Horton, Primitive Islam and Architecture in East AfricaGloria Karnouk, The Creswell Library: A LegacyTeresa Fitzherbert, The Creswell Photographic Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, OxfordR.W. Hamilton, Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell, 1879–1974Note:R.D. McChesney, Postscript to “Four Sources on Shah ʿAbbas’s Building of Isfahan”

Oleg Grabar (November 3, 1929 – January 8, 2011) was Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University until his retirement and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He published more then 30 books and countless articles on a range of subjects. Among his best-known works are: Formation of Islamic Art, Illustrations of the Maqamat, The Alhambra, Great Mosque of Isfahan, Mediation of Ornament, Mostly Miniatures, Shape of the Holy, Dome of the Rock, Penser l'art Islamique, and Masterpieces of Islamic Art: The Decorated Page from the 8th to the 17th century. Grabar received many honors during his lifetime, including the Charles Lang Freer Medal in 2001 and, in 2010, the Chairman's Award at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture ceremony in Doha. He was the founding editor of Muqarnas.

• Oleg Grabar, K. A. C. Creswell and His WorkJulian Raby, Reviewing the ReviewersJ.W. Allan, New Additions to the New EditionRobert Hillenbrand, Creswell and Contemporary Central European ScholarschipEric Fernie, The History of Medieval Architecture from Carolingian to Romanesque: Criteria and Definitions from 1925 to the Present DayCyril Mango, Approaches to Byzantine ArchitectureJ.M. Rogers, Architectural History as Literature: Creswell’s Reading and MethodsJonathan M. Bloom, Creswell and the Origins of the MinaretJohn Warren, Creswell’s Use of the Theory of Dating by the Acuteness of the Pointed Arches in Early Muslim ArchitectureSheila S. Blair, Surveyor versus EpigrapherAlastair Northedge, Creswell, Herzfeld, and SamarraG.R.D. King, Creswell’s Appreciation of Arabian ArchitectureMark Horton, Primitive Islam and Architecture in East AfricaGloria Karnouk, The Creswell Library: A LegacyTeresa Fitzherbert, The Creswell Photographic Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, OxfordR.W. Hamilton, Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell, 1879–1974Note:R.D. McChesney, Postscript to “Four Sources on Shah ʿAbbas’s Building of Isfahan”