Member of the Editorial Board of the Athar Journal
Work place
Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art (emerita), Boston College, City of Newton, MA, U.S.
Work address
Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art (emerita), Boston College, City of Newton, MA, United States of America
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Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art (emerita), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America
.................................................... P.S. emerita: (of a woman who is the former holder of an office, especially a female college professor) having retired but allowed to retain her title as an honor.
Dr. Sheila Blair
Biography
Professor Blair teaches about all aspects of Islamic art from the seventh century to modern times. She offers surveys on Islamic art, architecture, and urbanism, as well as research seminars on the Silk Road, the Islamic book, and the arts of the object. Her research is equally broad: she has written or co-written 17 books, including several international award winners, and more than 200 articles in journals, encyclopedias, colloquia, and festschriften. Several of her books were written with her husband and co-holder of the Calderwood Chair, Jonathan Bloom, with whom she served as artistic consultant to the three-hour documentary Islam: Empire of Faith, shown nationally on PBS.
Islamic Calligraphy (Edinburgh University Press, 2006); winner of the 2007 British-Kuwait Friendship Society/British Society of Middle Eastern Studies Prize and the 2008 World Prize for the Book of the Year by the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance; selected as a 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.
Islamic Inscriptions (Edinburgh University Press, 1998); winner of the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize for the best book on Middle Eastern studies published in Britain, 1999.
A Compendium of Chronicles: Rashid al-Din's Illustrated History of the World, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. XXVII, ed. Julian Raby (The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1995); winner of the Bahari Prize for the best book on Persian civilization, 1998.
The Ilkhanid Shrine Complex at Natanz, Iran, Harvard Middle East Papers, Classical Series no. 1 (Cambridge, MA: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1986); Persian translation by Vali-allah Kavusi Mi‘mārīyi īlkhānī dar na anz: majmu‘ah-i mazār-i shaykh ‘abd al-amad (Tehran: Iranian Academy of Art, 1387/2008).
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