Sheila Blair

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Sheila Blair is affiliated with the following schools: Boston College, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Sheila S. Blair is a Canadian-born American art historian and educator. Blair has served as the dual Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College, along with her husband, Jonathan M. Bloom.

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The Mirage of Islamic Art: Reflections on the Study of an Unwieldy Field (2003) (99)
Islamic Calligraphy (2006) (69)
A Compendium of Chronicles: Rashid Al-Din's Illustrated History of the World (1995) (39)
The Grove encyclopedia of Islamic art and architecture (2009) (38)
The monumental inscriptions from early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana (1991) (32)
Epic Images and Contemporary History: The Illustrations of the Great Mongol Shahnama (1980) (30)
Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power (2001) (28)
The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800. (1996) (25)
Ilkhanid Architecture and Society: An Analysis of the Endowment Deed of the Rabʿ-i Rashīdī (1984) (25)
The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art (1995) (24)
The Mongol Capital of Sulṭāniyya, "The Imperial" (1986) (19)
Images of Paradise in Islamic Art (1991) (18)
Timurid signs of sovereignty (1996) (17)
Illustrating History: Rashid al-Din and his Compendium of Chronicles (2017) (16)
Gifts of the Sultan : The arts of giving at the Islamic courts (2011) (16)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK IN IRAN (1992) (14)
And diverse are their hues : color in Islamic art and culture (2011) (13)
Islamic Inscriptions (1998) (12)
SUFI SAINTS AND SHRINE ARCHITECTURE IN THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY (1989) (12)
THE MADRASA AT ZUZAN: ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE IN EASTERN IRAN ON THE EVE OF THE MONGOL INVASIONS (1985) (11)
The Ilkhanid shrine complex at Natanz, Iran (1986) (11)
Rivers of Paradise: Water in Islamic Art and Culture (2009) (9)
The Octagonal Pavilion at Natanz: A Reexamination of Early Islamic Architecture in Iran (1983) (9)
The Coins of the Later Ilkhanids : a Typological Analysis 1 (1983) (8)
Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art (2014) (7)
COLOR AND GOLD: THE DECORATED PAPERS USED IN MANUSCRIPTS IN LATER ISLAMIC TIMES (2000) (6)
Calligraphers, Illuminators, and Painters in the Ilkhanid Scriptorium (2006) (5)
A Medieval Persian Builder (1986) (5)
Tabriz: International Entrepôt under the Mongols (2014) (5)
The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition (2019) (4)
Review: Bhadresvar: The Oldest Islamic Monuments in India by Mehrdad Shokoohy, Manijeh Bayani-Wolpert, Natalie H. Shokoohy; Hisar-i Furuza: Sultanate and Early Mughal Architecture in the District of Hisar, India by Mehrdad Shokoohy, Natalie H. Shokoohy (1989) (4)
Artists and patronage in late fourteenth-century Iran in the light of two catalogues of Islamic metalwork (1985) (4)
The Ilkhanid palace (1993) (4)
Lives of the Prophets: The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru’s “Assembly of Chronicles,” (2019) (3)
Transcribing God's Word: Qur'an Codices in Context (2008) (3)
Islamic Art and Architecture in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed. (1994) (3)
Rewriting the History of the Great Mongol Shahnama (2017) (3)
Ivories and inscriptions from islamic Spain (2004) (3)
Architecture as a Source for Local History in the Mongol Period: The Example of Warāmīn (2016) (3)
Muslim-style Mausolea across Mongol Eurasia: Religious Syncretism, Architectural Mobility and Cultural Transformation (2019) (2)
A Brief Biography Of Abu Zayd (2008) (2)
Place, Space and Style: Craftsmen's Signatures in Medieval Islamic Art (2015) (2)
Inscriptions in art and architecture (2006) (2)
Community organization under differing South Pole leaders (1992) (1)
From Iran to the Deccan: (2020) (1)
The Ilkhanid Qurʾan: An Example from Maragha (2015) (1)
Ten Poems from Hafez, by Jila Peacock (2012) (1)
SURVEYOR VERSUS EPIGRAPHER (1990) (1)
Leadership Bimingham: Integration through coalition building (1988) (1)
Chapter One.Inscribing the Square: The Inscriptions on the Maidān-i Shāh in Iṣfahān (2013) (1)
Editors’ Introduction: Religion and the Arts of Global Asia (2016) (0)
Gurgan Faiences, by Mehdi Bahrami. (Islamic Art Reprint Series, no. 1.) 134 pages, 48 bl.-&-wh. plates. Cairo 1949; reprint Mazda, Costa Mesa, Calif. 1988. $39.95. (1988) (0)
‘The Mirage of Islamic Art: Reflections on an Unwieldy Field’, The Art Bulletin, 85(1), 2003. Reproduced by permission of the authors and the College Art Association. (2012) (0)
Three Ways of Reading a Frontispiece: The Example of the Cairo Būstān (2022) (0)
Wall paintings of the Great Mosque of Iṣfahān. By Michael Jung, with contributions by Antonella Altieri, Paolo Cornale, Fabio Frezzato and Claudio Seccaroni. pp. 138. Rome, Nardini Editore, 2016. (2016) (0)
A Monumental Manifestation of the Shīᶜite Faith in Late Twelfth‐Century Iran: The Case of the Gunbad‐i ᶜAlawiyān, Hamadān, Raya Shani, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, xi, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 169 pp., 108 figures (photographs, sections, elevations and drawings). (1999) (0)
Reviews (2000) (0)
Glorifying God’s Word (2020) (0)
Ḥisba, Arts and Craft in Islam . By Ahmad Ghabin. (Arabisch-Islamische Welt in Tradition und Moderne 7). pp. 287. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2009. (2009) (0)
Sheila S. Blair. Review of "Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology: Collected Essays" by Ebba Koch. (2002) (0)
Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1783–1925, edited by Layla S Diba with Maryam Ekhtiar, I. B. Tauris in association with the Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1998, 296 pp., numerous illustrations, mostly in color. (2000) (0)
Iran and Central Asia, 1256–1507 (2019) (0)
14 Surveying Persian Art in Light of A Survey of Persian Art (2016) (0)
The Study of Islamic Architecture: Reflections on an Expanding Field (2021) (0)
A survey of the definition and historiography of ‘ Islamic art ’ and the various approaches to studying it (2012) (0)
Introduction: Art, Religion, And Politics In South Asia (2004) (0)
I. Reading a Painting: Sultan-Muhammad’s The Court of Gayumars (2018) (0)
Picturing Violence in the Islamic Lands (2020) (0)
Africa: Arts of the book (2003) (0)
Islamic Calligraphy by Sheila Blair (2006) (0)
Arts. James W. Allan. Nishapur: Metalwork of the Early Islamic Period. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982. 20 pp., numerous photographs and line drawings, bibliography, index. $35.00 (1983) (0)
Islamic Art as a Source for the Study of Women in Premodern Societies (2021) (0)
Invoking the Prophet Muhammad through Word, Sound, and Image (2016) (0)
Reviews (2011) (0)
Review: The Dervish Lodge: Architecture, Art, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey by Raymond Lifchez (1993) (0)
Inscribing God’s Word (2020) (0)
Erika Cruikshank DODD and Shereen KHAIRALLAH, The Image of the Word : A Study of Quranic Verses in Islamic Architecture. American University Press, Beirut, 1981 and Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 1982. 2 vols. 416 pps. $ 95.00 (1984) (0)
The Many Questions of Islamic Art (2007) (0)
Kalila wa Dimna: An Animal Alleqory of the Mongol Court: The Istanbul University Album, Jill Sanchia Cowen. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, xiii + 176 pp. + index, 16 color plates and some 75 black‐and‐white illustrations. $40.00. (1989) (0)
East Meets West under the Mongols (2017) (0)
Visual Sources for the Mongol Empire (2018) (0)
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (2006) (0)
The Art of Islam@@@The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800 (1998) (0)
Colette Sirat: Writing as Handwork: A History of Handwriting in Mediterranean and Western Culture . (Bibliologia – BIB 24.) 575 pp. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. €75. ISBN 2 503 52116 9. (2007) (0)

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