CURRICULUM VITAE
JONATHAN M. BLOOM 

Historian of Islamic Art and Architecture
Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art,
Boston College, Emeritus
Hamad Bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art
Virginia Commonwealth University, Emeritus

CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: jonathan.bloom@bc.edu
Email: jmbloom@vcu.edu
Email: jbloom@ne.rr.com

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8162-6301

Born April 7, 1950 in New York City (U. S. Citizen)
Married (1980) to Sheila S. Blair; father of Felicity R. Bloom (b 1988) and Oliver D. Bloom (b 1990)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching
January 2006-June 2019: Hamad Bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA)
July 2000-June 2018: Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA),
January-March 2005: Frederick Lindley Morgan Visiting Professor of Architectural History, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville (Louisville, KY)
July 2000-June 2001: Visiting Professor of Art History, Smith College (Northampton, MA) Winter 1995-6 Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Germany), Visiting Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture
Spring 1995: Trinity College (Hartford, CT), Department of Fine Arts, Visiting Associate Professor.
Spring 1989: Yale University, Department of the History of Art, Visiting Lecturer 1987-88 Research Associate, Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University 1981-87 Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University
Spring 1985: Visiting Professor, Centre d’étude du proche-orient ancien, Université de Genève (Switzerland)
1980-81: Aga Khan Lecturer on Islamic Art and Architecture, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spring 1980: Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles

Research and Editing
2017-18: Member, Scientific Committee, Il Palazzo Disvelato: Il Palazzo Reale di Palermo e altri luoghi del potere nel Mediterraneo medieval/The Palace Unveiled: The Royal Palace in Palermo, and other centres of power in the medieval Mediterranean, Palermo, June 2018
2015: Member, planning committee for interdisciplinary research project, “The Nile and the Fatimids: a River in the Life of a Dynasty” directed by Delia Cortese, Middlesex University and Simonetta Calderini, Roehampton University
2014: Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture (Elsevier)
2012: Reviewer for ChoiceJonathan M. Bloom Page 2 Revised 1/5/21
2010-12: Member, Advisory Board, Built Works Registry, a joint project of ArtStor, the Avery Library, Columbia University, and the Getty Research Institute
2010-2011: Senior consultant to Gardner Films, Baltimore, MD, for a 90-minute PBS special on Islamic art, Mirror of the Invisible World, broadcast summer 2012
2006: Co-organizer, Hamad bin Khalifa Biennial Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture (held in Doha, 2006; Cordoba, 2009; Doha, 2011; Palermo, 2013; Doha, 2015; Richmond, 2017)
2005-2008: Co-editor of the Grove Encyclopaedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
2005-2015: Sectional editor (Art and Architecture) for The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd edition, being published by E. J. Brill
2005: Adviser for Islamic Art and Architecture, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
1995-2003 (suspended): Compiler of A Third Supplement to K. A. C. Creswell’s Bibliography of the Architecture, Arts & Crafts of Islam, covering the years 1981 to 2000, a continuing project in collaboration with the Boston College Library and supported from 1995 to 2000 by the Max van Berchem Foundation, Geneva
1998-2000: Principal consultant to Gardner Films, Baltimore, MD, for their PBS 3-hour series, Islam: Empire of Faith
1996-98: Illustration consultant for The Oxford History of the Islamic World, Oxford University Press, New York
1987-96: Area editor for Islam and western Central Asia, The Dictionary of Art (London)

Curatorial
2015: co-curator, “Water and Islamic Art from the Doris Duke Collection,” a collaboration between Rough Point, Newport, RI and the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Honolulu, HI
2010-12: planning of an exhibition of Islamic art from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts tentatively entitled, “Boston Collects” (terminated).
2006: co-curator, “Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen,” McMullen Museum, Boston College, 2006 and Smart Museum, University of Chicago, 2007
2006: area curator for “Sacred and Secular,” an exhibition of medieval art from Boston area collections, McMullen Museum, Boston College, winter-spring 2006 Educational Tours
2006: China, Uzbekistan and Turkey with the Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago
1998, 1999, 2000: Iran (and Central Asia) with Distant Horizons
1994, 1995: Morocco with Archaeological Tours
1992: Spain and Morocco with the Smithsonian
1982: Morocco with Harvard Alumni Tours
1978: Egypt, Jordan and the Red Sea with Smith College Alumnae

EDUCATION
Attended New York City public schools, including the High School of Music and Art
1972 A.B., magna cum laude in Fine Arts from Harvard College
1975 A.M., in the History of Art from the University of Michigan
Thesis: “‘Raqqa’ Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art.”
1980 Ph.D. in Fine Arts and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University
Thesis: “Meaning in Early Fatimid Architecture: Islamic Art in North Africa and Egypt in the Fourth
Century A.H. (Tenth Century A.D.).”
Knowledge of French, German, Italian, Arabic and Persian
Extensive travel and research in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Central Asia, India, and ChinaJonathan M. Bloom Page 3 Revised 1/5/21

PRIZES, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Miegunyah Scholar in Residence, University of Melbourne, Australia
2015 Senior Scholar in Residence, The Doris Duke Center for Islamic Art, Honolulu
2011 Winner of the 2010 World Prize for the Book of the Year from the Islamic Republic of Iran in the field
of Islamic Studies (awarded February 2014)
2009 Senior Scholar in Residence, The Doris Duke Center for Islamic Art, Honolulu
2003 Charles Rufus Morey Award (College Art Association) for a distinguished book in the history of art
2002 Albert Hourani Book Award (Middle East Studies Association) (honorable mention)
2002 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award (Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities) (honorable mention)
2002 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) (runner up)
1999 Research Grant, Institute of Ismaili Studies (London)
1998 National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Research
1996-7 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Andrew Mellon Senior Fellowship
1995 Fondation Max van Berchem grant (for three years)
1995 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant
1990-1 Getty Research Program Senior Research Grant
1989-92 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Independent Research (with Sheila S. Blair)
1986 American Institute of Maghribi Studies Research Grant
1986 Harvard Faculty Research Fellowship
1986 N.E.H. Summer Institute: the Technology of Historic Architecture, Princeton
1981 K.A.C. Creswell Prize, 1981
1980-1 M.I.T. Post-Doctoral Fellowship
1979 Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities
1977 Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
1973 University of Michigan, Charles Freer Fellowship, 1975
1974-6 N.D.F.L. Fellowships in Arabic
1973 Corpus de Mosaïques Antiques de Tunisie, Assistant researcher
1972 elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Massachusetts
1969, 71 Harvard College, John Harvard Scholarship
1969 Harvard College, Detur Prize, 1969

MEMBERSHIPS
American Institute for Maghribi Studies,
American Research Center in Egypt (Fellowship Committee, 1997)
College Art Association (Morey Prize Jury, 2003-6)
Friends of Dard Hunter
Historians of Islamic Art
International Association of Paper Historians
International Center of Medieval Art
Iranian Studies Association
Medieval Academy of America
Middle East Medievalists
Middle East Studies Association
Society of Architectural Historians
Society for Mediterranean Studies

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Participant, Islamic Manuscript Association, Islamic Papermaking Workshop, London, The British Library, March 2015
Participant, Montefiascone Book Project (recreating historic Islamic bookbindings), August 2011- 2018
Reviewer, College Board AP Art History revised curriculum, Spring 2012
Advisory Board, Built Works Registry, 2010-2013Jonathan M. Bloom Page 4 Revised 1/5/21
Editorial board, Cultural Histories of the Material World, Bard Graduate Center and University of Michigan Press, 2009-
Co-convenor, Hamad bin Khalifa Biennial Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture, 2007-
Editorial board, Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art, Edinburgh University Press, 2007-
Middle East Studies Association, Fortieth Annual Meeting Program Co-Chair, 2006
Collaborative agreement with ArtStor to digitize 5500 slides of Islamic architecture
Member, National Committee for the History of Art, 2003-2006
College Art Association, Morey Award Jury, 2003-2006

PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Architecture of Western Islam: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula 700-1800 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3gHkLvyQBY
ed. with Sheila S. Blair, Islamic Art: Past, Present, Future, The Seventh Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Civilization (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019)
ed. with Sheila S. Blair, By the Pen and What They Write: Writing in Islamic Art and Civilization, The Sixth Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Civilization (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017)
ed. with Sheila S. Blair, God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth: Light in Islamic Art and Civilization, The Fifth Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Civilization (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), The Minaret (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtSr_A4wvMs
ed. with Sheila S. Blair, God is Beautiful and Loves Beauty: The Object in Islamic Art and Civilization, The Fourth Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Civilization (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013)
ed. with Sheila S. Blair, Diverse are their Hues: Color in Islamic Art and Civilization, The Third Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Civilization (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011)
ed. and introduction with Sheila S. Blair, Prisse d’Avennes: Arab Art (Munich: Taschen, 2010)
ed. with Sheila S. Blair, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture, 3 vols (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). Winner of the 2010 World Book of the Year Prize from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
ed. with Sheila S. Blair, Rivers of Paradise: Water in Islamic Art and Civilization, The Second Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Civilization (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009)
Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt (London and New Haven: Institute of Ismaili Studies in Association with Yale University Press, 2007) with Sheila S. Blair, Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen (Chestnut Hill, MA, McMullen Museum, 2006)
ed., trans. and introduction, Early Islamic Art and Architecture [The Forming of the Classical Islamic World: 600-950] (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002)
Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic Lands (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001; R 2013). Turkish translation by Zülal Kılıç as Kâğit İşlenen Uygarlık: Kâğıdın Tarihi ve İslam
Dünyasına Etkisi (Istanbul: Kitap Publishing, 2003); Arabic translation in preparation.
Winner, Charles Rufus Morey Book Award of the College Art Association, 2003
Albert Hourani Book Award (honorable mention) of the Middle East Studies Association, 2002
Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award (honorable mention), 2002
British-Kuwait Friendship Society/British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Book Prize (runner-up), 2002. Available as an ACLS e-book at https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.06496 and an electronic version is
available at Yale University Press’s A&AePortal (www.aaeportal.com) with Sheila Blair: Islam: A Thousand Years of Power and Faith (New York: TV Books, 2000; reprinted in paperback by Yale University Press, 2002). Also published in the UK as Islam: Empire of Faith (London, BBC Books, 2001). Spanish translation as Islam: Mil años de ciencia y poder (Barcelona: Paidos, 2003); Russian
translation as Ислам: Тысяча Лет Веры и Могушества (Moscow: Dilya, 2009) with Ahmed Toufiq, Stefano Carboni, Jack Soultanian, Antoine M. Wilmering, Mark D. Minor, Andrew Zawacki,
and El Mostafa Hbibi, The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998).Jonathan M. Bloom Page 5 Revised 1/5/21
with Sheila Blair, Islamic Arts (London: Phaidon, 1997); Greek translation (Athens, 1999); Japanese translation (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2001); Korean translation (Seoul: Hangil, 2003)
with Sheila S. Blair, The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250-1800. The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994); Spanish translation as Arte y arquitectura del Islam:
1250-1800 (Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 1999); Arabic translation by Wafaa Abdulaali as al-Fann wa’l-mi‘māra al-islāmiyya (Abu Dhabi, ADACH, 2012); Polish translation as Sztuka i Architektura Islamu 1250-1800 (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Akademickie/DIALOG, 2012). Chosen as one of the eBooks on Yale University Press’s A&AePortal https://www.aaeportal.com/?id=-15655
ed. with Sheila S. Blair, Images of Paradise in Islamic Art, illustrated catalogue of an exhibition at the Hood Museum,
Asia Society, etc. (Hanover, NH, 1991)
Minaret: Symbol of Islam. [Oxford Studies in Islamic Art VII] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Chapters in Books “The Crafts of Paper, Printing and Painting in the Renaissance,” for A Cultural History of Craft in the Renaissance, ed. T. M. Safley, vol. 4 of The Cultural History of Craft, gen. ed. Clive Edwards. London: Bloomsbury (submitted) “Paper,” in A Cultural Hstory of Technology, 2: The Medieval Period, ed. Roberta Magnusson. London: Bloomsbury, (submitted) “The Norman Palace in Context: Islamic Palaces in the Mediterranean,” in Il Palazzo Disveluto/The Palace Unveiled,
ed. Maria Andaloro & Ruggero Longo [special issue of Bolletino d’arte], (submitted) “Paper in the Mediterranean World,” in Global Print: Essays in Comparative History, ed. John Wills (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, in preparation)
“Mediterranean Technologies and Thought: Paper Production,” in Mapping the Medieval Mediterranean, ed. Julian Deahl and Amity Nichols Law (Leiden: Brill, in preparation) “Fatimid Mosques” in Islamic Religious Architecture, ed. Kathryn Moore and Hasan-Uddin Khan (Turnhout: Brepols, in preparation)
“The Minaret during the Seljuk Era,” in The Architecture of the Greater Iranian World 1000-1250, ed. Robert Hillenbrand (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, accepted)
“The Roles of Paper in Ilkhanid Art and Architecture,” The Art of the Mongols, ed. Robert Hillenbrand (Cambridge, in press).
with Sheila Blair, “From Iran to the Deccan: Architectural Transmission and the Madrasa of Mahmud Gavan at
Bidar,” in Keelan Overton, ed. Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, ca. 1400-1700. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020), pp. 175-202
with Sheila Blair, “The Islamic Book,” in James Raven, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 195-220
“Egypt (Arab Conquest to Mamluk Dynasty), 641–1517,” in Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture, 21st ed., ed. Tom Dyckhoff (London: Bloomsbury and the Royal Institute of British Architects, 2019), pp. 267-91
“The Transformative Role of Paper in the Literary Culture of the Islamic Lands,” in Books and Readers in the Premodern World: Essays in Honor of Harry Gamble, ed. Karl Shuve (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2018), pp. 33-46
“The Marble Mihrab Panels of the Great Mosque of Kairouan,” in Glaire D. Anderson, Corisande Fenwick, and Mariam Rosser-Owen eds, with Sihem Lamine, The Aghlabids and their Neighbours: Art and Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 190-206
with Sheila Blair, “Ten (or Eleven) Years of the Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture,” in Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, ed., By the Pen and What They Write, Writing in Islamic Art and
Civilization (London: Yale University Press, 2017), pp. 1-13
“How Paper Changed Islamic Literary and Visual Culture,” in Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, ed., By the Pen and What They Write, Writing in Islamic Art and Civilization (London: Yale University Press, 2017), pp. 105-27
“The Historical Geography of Paper,” Mobilities of Knowledge, ed. Heike Jöns, Peter Meusburger and M. Hefferman [Knowledge and Space, vol. 10] (Dordrecht: Springer, 2016), pp. 51-66
with Sheila Blair, “Introduction,” “Shangri-La and the Role of Water in the Architecture of the Islamic Lands,” and “The Inside Scoop: Water in Interior Spaces and Daily Life in the Islamic Lands,” Waterscapes: Islamic
Architecture and Art from Doris Duke’s Shangri-La, ed. Margot Nishimura (Newport, RI: Newport Restoration Foundation, 2016), pp. 1-13
“Arthur Upham Pope: His Life and Times,” Arthur Upham Pope and his Legacy, ed. Yuka Kadoi (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 75-93Jonathan M. Bloom Page 6 Revised 1/5/21
“Art and Architecture,” The Shii World: Pathways in Muslim Tradition and Modernity, ed. Farhad Daftary, Shainool Jiwa and Amyn Sajoo. (London: Institute of Ismaili Studies and I. B. Tauris, 2015), pp. 228-56
“Erasure and Memory: Aghlabid and Fatimid Inscriptions in North Africa,” in Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World, ed. Antony Eastmond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 61-75
“The Muslim Community of Fustat,” A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Old Cairo, edited by Tasha Vorderstrasse and Tanya Treptow (Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2015), 21-26
“Kutubiyya Minbar,” “Qarawiyyin Minbar,” “Qasba Minbar,” Le Marco médiéval: un empire de l’Afrique à l’Espagne, ed.
Yannick Lintz, Claire Déléry and Bulle Tuil Leonetti (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2014), pp. 192, 198-9, 369-70
“Nasir-i Khusraw in Jerusalem,” No Tapping Around Philology: A Festschrift in Honor and Celebration of Wheeler McIntosh Jr.'s 70th Birthday, ed. Alireza Korangy and Daniel J. Sheffield (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014), pp.395-406
“Evanescent Meaning: the Role of Shiism in Fatimid Mosques,” People of the Prophet’s House: Art, Architecture and Shiism in the Islamic Word, ed. Fahmida Suleiman (London: I. B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies), pp. 63-71
“Architectural ‘Influence’ and the Hajj,” Hajj: Collected Essays, ed. Venetia Porter (British Museum Research Papers, 2013), pp. 136-42
“A Cultural History of the Material World of Islam,” Cultural Histories of the Material World, ed. Peter N. Miller (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013), pp. 240-48
with Sheila Blair, “Marvels of things created and miraculous aspects of existing things (mid-1200s), al-Qazwini” in Hidden Treasure: the National Library of Medicine, ed. Michael Sappol (Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine, 2012), p. 78
“Silk Road or Paper Road?” in The Silk Road: Key Papers, ed. Valerie Hansen (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 563-73
“Fatimid Gifts,” in Gifts of the Sultans, ed. Linda Komaroff (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011)
with Sheila S. Blair, “Syria and the Middle Euphrates After Dura,” Dura Europus: Crossroads of Antiquity, ed. Lisa Brody and Gail Hoffman (Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullan Museum of Art, Boston College, 2011), pp. 19-29
“Moving Words,” in A Companion to Muslim Cultures, ed. Amyn Sajoo (London: I. B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2011), pp. 137-64
“The Islamic Sources of the Cappella Palatina Pavement,” Die Cappella Palatina in Palermo: Geschichte, Kunst, Funktionen, ed. Thomas Dittelbach (Wuerth Stiftung, 2011), pp. 177-98, 551-59
“The Painted Ivory Box made for the Fatimid Caliph al-Mu‘izz,” Siculo-Arabic Ivories and Islamic Painting, 1100–1300: Proceedings of the International Conference, Berlin, 6–8 July 2007, ed. David Knipp [Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 36] (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2012), pp. 141-50
“Literary and Oral Cultures,” Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the 18th Century, ed. Robert Irwin; vol 4 of The New Cambridge History of Islam (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 668-681
“Woodwork in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt during the 12th and 13th Centuries,” in Ayyubid Jerusalem: The Holy City in Context 1187-1250, ed. Robert Hillenbrand and Sylvia Auld (London: Altajir World of Islam Trust, 2009), pp. 129-46
“Lost in Translation: Gridded Plans and Maps along the Silk Road,” The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road, ed. Philippe Fôret and Andreas Kaplony (Leiden, Brill, 2008), pp. 83-96
“Paper in Sudanic Africa,” The Meanings of Timbuktu, ed. Shamil Jeppie and Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2007): 44-57
with Sheila S. Blair, [42 entries on Islamic Art], D. Fortenberry, ed., 30,000 Years of Art (London, Phaidon, 2007)
“Ceremonial and Sacred Space in Early Fatimid Cairo,” Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World: the Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society, ed. A. K. Benison and A. Gascoine (London, Routledge, 2007), pp. 96-114
with Sheila S. Blair, “Christian Art in Muslim Contexts,” in Michelle Brown, The Lion Companion to Christian Art (Oxford, Lion Hudson, 2007), pp. 102-104
with Sheila S. Blair, “Inscriptions in art and architecture,” in A Cambridge Companion to the Qur‘ān, ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 163-78
“Paper: The Transformative Medium in Ilkhanid Art and Architecture,” Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan, ed.Linda Komaroff (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006), pp. 289-302
“Preface,” Therese Weber, The Language of Paper: a History of 2000 Years (Hong Kong/Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2006),pp. xiv-xv
with Sheila S. Blair, “Christian Art in Muslim Contexts,” in The Lion Companion to Christian Art, ed. Michelle Brown, (Oxford, Lion Hudson, 2007), pp. 102-104Jonathan M. Bloom Page 7 Revised 1/5/21
with Sheila. S. Blair, “Inscriptions in art and architecture,” in A Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an, ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 163-78
with Sheila S. Blair, “The Visual Arts of Iran during the Islamic Period,” Persia: Fragments from Paradise: Treasures from the National Museums of Iran (Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2007), pp. 123-150
with Sheila S. Blair, “From Secular to Sacred, Islamic Art in Christian Contexts,” Sacred/Secular, ed. N. Netzer (Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College, 2006), pp. 115-119
with Sheila S. Blair, “Timur’s Qur’an, a Reappraisal,” Shifting Sands, Reading Signs: Studies in Honour of Professor Géza Fehérvári. (London: Furnace, 2006) pp. 5-14
“Almoravid Geometrical Designs in the Pavement of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo,” The Iconography of Islamic Art: Studies in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand, edited by Bernard O’Kane (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press, 2005), pp. 61-80.
“The Great Mongol Shahnama in the Qajar Period,” Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings, ed. Robert Hillenbrand (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 25-34.
with Sheila S. Blair, “North Africa: 600-1500,” “West Asia: 600-1000,” “West Asia: 1000-1500,” “Central Asia: 600-1500,” “North Africa: 1500-1800,” “Asia: 1500-1900,” “West Asia: 1500-1800,” “Central Asia: 1500-1800,”
“West Asia” 1800-1900,” “Central Asia: 1800-1900,” “Asia: 1900-2000,” for The Atlas of World Art, ed. John Onians (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)
with Sheila S. Blair, “Preface to the English edition,” Gardens of Iran: Ancient Wisdom, New Visions, ed. Faryar Javaherian (Tehran: Iranian Institute for Promotion of Visual Arts, 2004): 10
“Epic Images Revisited: an Ilkhanid Legacy in Safavid Painting,” Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East,
edited by Andrew J. Newman (Leiden: E. J. Brill: 2003), pp. 237-48.“Minarets,” in The Splendour of Iran, ed. by N. Pourjavady. 3 vols (London: Booth-Clibborn, 2001)
with Sheila S. Blair, “Iraq, Iran and Egypt: the Abbasids,” “Ornament,” “Early Empires of the East: Ghaznavids and Ghurids,” “Central Asia and Asia Minor: The Great Seljuks, the Anatolian Seljuks and the Khwarazmshahs:
Architecture, Decorative Arts of the Great Seljuks,” “Tiles as Architectural Decoration,” “Iran: Safavids and Qajars: Architecture,” and “Islamic Carpets” in Islam: Kunst und Architektur, ed. Marcus Hattstein and Peter Delius Berlin: Könemann, 2000), English translation as Islam: Art and Architecture; French translation as Arts & civilisations de l’Islam, pp. 88-124, 328-345, 368-69, 382-405, 448-49, 504-19, and 530-33
with Sheila S. Blair, “Art and Architecture: Themes and Variations,” The Oxford History of the Islamic World, ed. John Esposito (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 215-68
“Walled Cities in Islamic North Africa and Egypt with particular reference to the Fatimids (909-1171),” City Walls in Early Modern History, ed. James Tracy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
with Sheila S. Blair, “Décor,” in Céramiques du monde musulman: collections de l’Institut du monde arabe et de J.P. et F. Croisier, ed. J. Mouliérac (Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, 1999), pp. 58-74
“The Minbar in the Kutubiyya Mosque,” The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque, by Jonathan M. Bloom et al. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998).
“Ibn Marzuk on the architectural patronage of the Marinid Sultan Abu’l-Hasan Ali (r. 1331-1348)”, in Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and the Religious Life, ed. John Renard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), pp. 250-61
with Sheila S. Blair, “By the Pen: The Art of Writing in Islamic Art,” First Under Heaven: The Art of Asia [The Fourth HALI Annual] (London: Hali, 1997), pp. 108-125
“Jerusalem in Medieval Islamic Literature”, City of the Great King: Jerusalem from David to the Present, ed. Nitza Rosovsky (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), pp. 205-17.
“The Minaret before the Saljuqs,” The Art of the Seljuqs in Iran and Anatolia, ed. Robert Hillenbrand (Malibu: Undena, 1994), pp. 12-16.
“Minarets and Church Towers in Medieval Spain,” Künstlerischer Austausch/Artistic Exchange: Akten des XXVIII. Internationalen Kongresses für Kunstgeschichte Berlin, 15.-20. Juli 1992, pp. 361-71.
“Five Panels from a Minbar made for the Mosque of the Andalusians, Fez” and “Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque, Marrakesh,” in Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain, ed. Jerrilynn D. Dodds (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992), pp. 249-51 and 362-7.
“The Classical Period (1050-1250),” Islamic Art and Patronage: Treasures from Kuwait, ed. Esin Atil (New York, 1990), pp. 95-109.
“The Early Fatimid Blue Koran Manuscript,” Les Manuscrits du moyen-orient: essais de codicology et paléographie, ed. François Déroche (Istanbul/Paris, 1989), pp. 95-99.
“The Revival of Early Islamic Architecture by the Umayyads of Spain,” The Medieval Mediterranean: Cross-Cultural Contacts, ed. Marilyn J. Chiat and Kathryn L. Reyerson (St. Cloud, MN, 1988), pp. 35-41.Jonathan M. Bloom Page 8 Revised 1/5/21

Journal Articles
with Sheila Blair, “The Visual Arts of Iran in the Islamic Period,” Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures (Hunan Normal University) [in Chinese]
“Painting in the Fatimid Period Revisited,” Festschrift for Barbara Brend on her 80th Birthday, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (accepted)
“Two Carpets in the David Collection and the Evolution of Design in the Islamic Lands,” Journal of the David Collection, III (in press)
with Sheila Blair, “Reflections on the Study of Islamic Architecture,” International Journal of Islamic Architecture 10.1 (2020).
with Sheila Blair, “Hidden Treasures: Qurʾan Manuscripts in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” Codicological Studies 1/1 [Festschrift in honor of Iraj Afshar] (Winter 2017), pp. 9-18
“The Blue Koran Revisited,” Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 6/2-3 (2015): 196-218.
“Papermaking in the Islamic lands,” Hand Papermaking (2012)
with Sheila Blair, “Oleg Grabar” (Obituary) for Society of Architectural Historians Newsletter (March 2012)
“Strapwork Designs in Western Islamic Art,” Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, III, ed. Lorenz Korn and Anja Heidenreich (Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2012), pp. 150-62
with Sheila Blair, “Cosmophilia and its Critics: An Overview of Islamic Ornament,” Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, III, ed. Lorenz Korn and Anja Heidenreich (Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2012), pp. 39-54
“Islamic Art and Architecture in Sicily: How Fatimid Is It?” I Fatimidi e il Mediterraneo: Il sistema di relazioni nel mondo dell’Islam e nell’area del Mediterraneo nel periodo della da’wa fatimide (sec. X-XI): instituzioni, società, cultura, Palermo 3-6 dicembre 2008, Alifabâ: Studi arabo-islamici e mediterranei 22 (2008): 29-43
“The Fake Fatimid Doors of the Fakahani Mosque in Cairo,” Muqarnas 25 [Essays in honor of Oleg Grabar] (2008):231-42
“The Garden as Paradise; the Garden as Garden’ The Arabist: Budapest Studies in Arabic 28-29 [Proceedings of the Colloquium on Paradise and Hell in Islam, Keszthely, 7-14 July 2002], ed. K. Dévényi and A. Fodor (2008):
“Silk Road or Paper Road,” The Silk Road, December 2005, pp 21-26; available online at http://silkroadfoundation.org/toc/newsletter.html
“Ivory and Wood: The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque and the Ivories from Córdoba,” Colloquium on the Ivories of Muslim Spain, ed. Kjeld von Folsach and Joachim Meyer, Journal of the David Collection, II (2005), pp. 204-13
“Fact and Fantasy in Buyid Art,” Kunst und Kunsthandwerk im frühen Islam, 2. Bamberger Symposium der Islamischen Kunst 25. -27. Juli 1996, ed. Barbara Finster, Christa Fragner, Herta Hafenrichter. Oriente Moderno, XXII(LXXXIV), n.s. (2004), 387-400
with Sheila S. Blair, “Introduction: Art, Religion, and Politics in South Asia,” Religion and the Arts, 8/i (2004), pp. 1-4
with Sheila S. Blair, “The Mirage of Islamic Art: Reflections on the Study of an Unwieldy Field,” The Art Bulletin 85/1 (March 2003):152-84.
“Epic Images and Contemporary History: the Legacy of the Great Mongol Shahnama,” Islamic Art 5 (2001), pp. 41- 52.
“The Introduction of Paper and the Development of the Illustrated Manuscript in the Islamic Lands,” Muqarnas 17 (2000), pp. 17-23.
with Sheila S. Blair, “Signatures on Works of Islamic Art,” Damaszener Mitteilungen, 11 (1999), [Festschrift für Michael Meinecke, ed. Marianne Barrucand], pp.49-66.
“Paper in Fatimid Egypt,” in L’Égypte fatimids, son art et son histoire, ed. Marianne Barrucand. Paris: Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1999, pp. 395-401.
“Mamluk Art and Architecture: A Review Article,” Mamluk Studies Review 3 (1999) 31-58.
“L’Iconographie figurative dans les arts décoratifs” and “Les techniques des arts décoratifs,” Dossiers d’archéologie [L’âge d’or des Fatimides], no. 233, May 1999, pp. 58-71,
“Egypt V. Artistic relations with Persia in the Islamic Period,” Encyclopaedia Iranica (Costa Mesa, CA, 1998).
“Ibn Marzuk on the architectural patronage of the Marinid Sultan Abu’l-Hasan Ali (r. 1331-1348)”, in John Renard,
ed., Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Sprituality and the Religious Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998): 250-61.Jonathan M. Bloom Page 9 Revised 1/5/21
“The Fatimids: Their Ideology and Their Art,” Islamische Textilekunst des Mittelalters [Riggisberger Berichte, 5] (Bern-Riggisberg: Abegg Stiftung, 1997), pp. 15-26.
“Coverage of Islamic Art in Reference Works,” Arts and the Islamic World, 27-28 (1996), pp. 64ff.
“The Qubbat al-Khadra’ and the Iconography of Height in Early Islamic Architecture”, Ars Orientalis (1994), pp. 131-7.
with Sheila S. Blair, “Islamic Art and Architecture in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed.," MESA Bulletin 28 (1994), pp.158-62
“On the Transmission of Designs in Early Islamic Architecture,” Muqarnas 10 (1993), pp. 21-8.
with Sheila S. Blair and Anne E. Wardwell, “Reevaluating the Date of the ‘Buyid’ Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis”, Ars Orientalis 22 (1993), pp. 1-42.
“Creswell and the Origins of the Minaret,” Muqarnas 8 (1991):55-58.
“The Early Fatimid Blue Koran Manuscript,” Graeco-Arabica 4 (1991):171-78.
“A Mamluk Basin in the L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute,” Islamic Art 2 (1987), pp. 19-26.
“Al-Ma’mûn’s Blue Koran?” Revue des Études Islamiques 54 (1986) [Mélanges Dominique Sourdel], pp. 61-65.
“The Introduction of the Muqarnas into Egypt,” Muqarnas 5 (1989):21-18.
“The Mosque of the Qarafa in Cairo,” Muqarnas 4 (1987): 7-20.
“The Origins of Fatimid Art,” Muqarnas 3 (1985): 20-38.
“Five Fatimid Minarets in Upper Egypt,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 43 (1984): 162-67.
“The Mosque of al-Hakim in Cairo,” Muqarnas 1 (1983):15-36
“The Mosque of Baybars al-Bunduqdari in Cairo,” Annales islamologiques 18 (1982):45-78

Encyclopedia Entries
“Islamic Art History,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly (2013)
“Fatimid art and architecture,” “Minaret,” and “Paper” for The Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE.
“Minaret” for the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, ed. John Esposito (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
“Calligraphy;” “Carpets;” “Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo;” “Paper Manufacture” for Medieval Islamic Civilization: an Encyclopedia, ed. Josef Meri (New York: Routledge, 2006)
“Mosque,” The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an, vol. 3, ed. Jane McAuliffe (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003)
with Sheila S. Blair, “Ornament,” The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an, vol. 3, ed. Jane McAuliffe (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003)
with Sheila S. Blair, “Art,” “Calligraphy,” “Dome of the Rock,” “Manar/Manara,” “Mihrab,” Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, ed. Richard C. Martin (New York: Macmillan, 2003)
with Sheila S. Blair, “Inscriptions in art and architecture” in The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an, ed. Jane McAuliffe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 163-78
with Sheila S. Blair, “Ornament,” The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an, vol. 3, ed. Jane McAuliffe (Leiden: EJ Brill, 2003)
with Sheila S. Blair, “Art,” “Calligraphy,” “Dome of the Rock,” “Mihrab,” and “Minaret” in the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, ed. Richard Martin (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003)
with Sheila S. Blair, “Yashm,” The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed.
with Sheila S. Blair, “Tessuti, Islam,” in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Medievale
“Fatimid;” “Islamic art §II, 5(ii)(a) Architecture: Tunisia and eastern Algeria c. 900-c. 1250;”“Islamic art §II, 5(ii)(c)
Architecture: Egypt c. 900-c. 1250;” Islamic art §VII, 1 (i)(b) Woodwork: Egypt, Syria and Iraq, ca. 1000- 1250;” “Islamic art §XI, 1. Collectors and collecting, Islamic lands;” “Khanaqah;” “Madrasa;” “Maqsura;”
“Mihrab;” “Minaret;” “Palace §V. Islamic world;” and with Sheila S. Blair, “Brick §V, 4 Islamic lands;”
“Colour §IV, Islamic world;” “Islamic art §II, 1. Architecture: Introduction;” “Islamic art, §II, 5(i)(a), Architecture: Iran and western Central Asia, c. 900-c. 1050;”
“Islamic art §II. 9(i)(a) Architectural decoration: non-figural sculpture;” “Islamic art §III, 1. Arts of the Book, Introduction;” “Islamic art §III. 4(i) Arts of the Book: Painted Illustration: Introduction, Subject-matter;” “Islamic art §III. 4(ii)(b), Arts of the Book: Painted Illustration, belles-lettres;” “Islamic art §IV. 2(ii) Metalware Gold and Silver before c. 1100;” “Islamic art §V. 1 Ceramics: Introduction;” “Islamic Art §V, 5(iii) Ceramics, after 1500, North Africa;” “Islamic art §VI, 2. Textiles, Fabrics;” “Islamic art §VI, 2, (iii)(e) Textiles: Indian subcontinent;”
“Islamic art §VI, 4(iv)(c) Carpets and flatweaves, ca. 1700 and after: Iran,” and about 100 unsigned articles for The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Shoaf Turner (London: Macmillan, 1997)
“Egypt §VI: Artistic relations with Persia in the Islamic Period” and “Paper,” for the Encyclopaedia Iranica
“Alhambra” and “Art, Muslim” in Medieval Iberia: an Encyclopedia, ed. E. Michael Gerli (New York: Routledge, 2003)
“Ibn Tulun Mosque,” in the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, ed. Reeva S. Simon, Philip Mattar and Richard W. Bulliet (New York, Macmillan Reference USA, 1996), 2: 840-41Jonathan M. Bloom Page 10 Revised 1/5/21
“Aghlabid art,” “al-Azhar,” “Badgir,” “Badr al-Jamali,” “Funduq,” “Mashrabiya,” “Mosque,” “Musalla,” “Qaʿa” for The Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: Scribner, 1982-89)
“al-Munif,” for The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (New York: Free Press, 1982) Online Publications
“Papyrus, Parchment and Paper in Islamic Studies,” Oxford Bibliographies Online (2019) DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195390155-0265
“Islamic Art and Architecture in North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula,” Oxford Bibliographies Online (2018) DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199920105-0124
“Minaret,” Oxford Islamic Studies Online (2013) http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com.proxy.bc.edu/article/opr/t343/e0117 (accessed 18-Feb-2020)

Popular Articles
with Sheila Blair and Nancy Steinhardt, “The Back-roads Historic Mosques of China,” AramcoWorld 65:6 (November-December 2014); https://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/201406/the.backroad.historic.mosques.of.china.htm
with Sheila Blair, “Domes,” Saudi Aramco World Calendar, 2014
with Sheila Blair, “A Display of Intelligence,” [on the new installation of Islamic Art in the Louvre Museum] Halı 174 (Winter 2013), 46-49
“An American’s Qur’an,” Sightings (March 8, 2012) [http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/publications/sightings/archive_2012/0308.shtml]
with Sheila Blair, “The Scholars’ View [of the Reinstallation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Galleries],” Halı 170 (Winter 2012), 51-59
“Gifts of the Fatimids,” The Ismaili USA (Winter 2011): 44-47
with Sheila Blair, “From Aladdin’s Cave: the Reinstallation [of the David Collection], Halı 161 (Autumn 2009), 74-89
with Sheila Blair, “A Global Guide to Islamic Art,” Saudi Aramco World Magazine 60/1 (January/February 2009)
with Sheila Blair, “Why Veiling,” introductory essay to accompany a selection of photographs by Rania Mata, Post Road Magazine 17 (Spring 2009): 33-34
“The Paper Trail,” Hadeeth ad-Dar 24 (2007): 5-8
“Through Islamic Eyes, Five Manifestations of the Muslim Vision,” Boston College Magazine (Summer 2003)
“Hand Sums: The Ancient Art of Counting with your Fingers,” Boston College Magazine (Spring 2002): 6
“The Mullah’s Murals,” (AI) Performance for the Planet (Spring 2002): 42
“The Minaret: Symbol of Faith and Power,” Saudi Aramco World Magazine (March/April 2002): 26-35
“Patient Restoration: the Kuwait National Museum,” (with Lark Ellen Gould). Saudi Aramco World Magazine 51/5, September/October 2000, pp. 10-20.
“Muqarnas: The Rhythm of the Honeycomb,” Aramco World Magazine 51:3 (May/June 2000):10-11
“Quest for the Perfect Loaf,” Yankee Magazine, March 2000, 88-95
“Revolution by the Ream: A History of Paper,” Aramco World Magazine 49:3 (June 1999): 26-39
“The Masterpiece Minbar,” Aramco World Magazine 48:3 (May/June 1998): 2-11
with Sheila S. Blair, “The Splendors of Islamic Art,” Humanities 11/3 (1990), pp. 35-37

Radio Interviews, Broadcasts, and Podcasts
Eavesdrop on Experts, with Sheila Blair, March 12, 2019
https://podcasts.apple.com/sc/podcast/the-history-of-paper/id1228445283?i=1000434002909
Interview with Marco Werman from PRI’s The World about the ISIS flag, September 4, 2014
(http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-04/ever-wonder-what-black-and-white-isis-flag-means)
BBC3 “Essay: Paper: The Islamic Golden Age,” November 28, 2013
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03j9nhy)
Hawaii Public Radio, interview with Noe Tanigawa, February 2009
Wisconsin Public Radio: Interview with Steve Paulson, August 28, 2002
WNYC: Leonard Lopate Show, May 21, 2002Jonathan M. Bloom Page 11 Revised 1/5/21
BBC interview about “Paper before Print,” aired December 25, 2001

Photographs Published
The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
5500+ slides of Islamic architecture on ArtStor (2005)
What Life was Like in the Lands of the Prophet. Alexandria: Time-Life Books, 2000.
Islam: Kunst und Architektur, ed. Marcus Hattstein and Peter Delius. Berlin: Könemann, 2000; Eng. translation, fall 2000.
The Oxford History of the Islamic World, ed. John Esposito New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
David Norcliffe, Islam: Faith and Practice. Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 1999 (cover)
The Kutubiyya Mosque Minbar, by Jonathan M. Bloom et al. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998
Islamic Arts. London: Phaidon, 1997.
The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250-1800. The Pelican History of Art. London: Yale University Press, 1994
Aramco World Magazine
Harvard Magazine

Book Reviews
Titus Burckhardt: A Living Islamic City: Fez and its Preservation for Choice 2020
Jennifer Pruitt, Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture for Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2021)
Caroline Fowler, The Art of Paper: From the Holy Land to the Americas for Choice 27/10 (June 2020)
Christiane Gruber, ed., The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World for Choice 57/7 (March 2020)
Felix Arnold, Islamic Palace Architecture in the Western Mediterranean: A History for Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 77/4 (December 2018), pp. 474-6
Sonia Rhie Quintanilla, et al., Mughal Paintings: Art and Stories for Choice 54/8 (April 2017)
Heinz Gaube and Abdulrahman Al Salimi, eds. Illuminated Qurans from Oman for Orientalische Literaturzeitung 112/4-5 (November 2017), pp. 393-95
Linda Komaroff et al., Beauty and Identity: Islamic Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for Choice 54/3 (November 2016)
Mark Kurlansky: Paper: Paging through History for The Historian 79/3 (2017), pp. 658-59
Tarek Swelim, The Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2015) for Choice 53/10 (June 2016)
Arthur Millner, Damascus Tiles: Mamluk and Ottoman Architectural Ceramics from Syria for Choice (March 2016)
Naoko Sonoda, Claude Laroque, Jeong Hye-young and Chen Gang, eds, Research on Paper and Papermaking, Proceedings of an International Workshop for Journal of Anthropological Research 71 (2015), pp. 132-33
Doris Behrens-Abouseif, ed., The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria—Evolution and Impact for Mamluk Studies Review 17 (2013), pp. 258-61
Richard Brilliant and Dale Kinney, eds, Reuse Value: Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine for CAA Reviews Online (January 31, 2013)
William Dalrymple and Yuthika Sharma, eds, Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857 for Choice (June 2012)
Andreas Birken, Atlas of Islam: 1800-2000 for Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft 164/1 (2012), pp. 264-67
with Sheila S. Blair, Finbarr Barry Flood, Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval “Hindu-Muslim” Encounter for The Art Bulletin 93/1 (March 2011), pp. 108-10
H. Rebhan. Die Wunder der Schöpfung / The Wonders of Creation. Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek aus dem islamischen Kulturkreis. (Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Ausstellungskataloge, Nr. 83) for Bibliotheca Orientalis 68/5-6 (2011), cols 628-32
Richard Yeomans, The Art and Architecture of Islamic Cairo for Journal of Near Eastern Studies 70/1 (2011), pp. 175-77
Adam Gacek, Arabic Manuscripts: A Vademecum for Readers for Journal of the American Oriental Society 130/2 (AprilJune 2010), pp. 300-301
Oleg Grabar, The Dome of the Rock for TLS (7 December 2007)
Bernard Heyberger et Silvia Naef, eds, La Multiplication des images en pays d’Islam for Arabica 53/4 (2006), pp. 531-34Jonathan M. Bloom Page 12 Revised 1/5/21
Jill Edwards, ed., Historians in Cairo, Essays in Honor of George Scanlon for Journal of Near Eastern Studies 65/1 (January 2006), pp. 71-2
Caroline Williams, Islamic monuments in Cairo: the Practical guide for Journal of Near Eastern Studies 65/3 (July 2006), pp. 213-14
Nelly Hanna, In Praise of Books: A cultural history of Cairo’s middle class, sixteenth to eighteenth century for The Times Literary Supplement (December 24 & 31, 2004), p. 9
Klaus Kreiser, The Beginnings of Printing in the Near and Middle East: Jews, Christians and Muslims for Journal of Islamic Studies 15/2 (May 2004), pp. 238-40
B. Finster, Ch. Fragner, and H. Hafenrichter, eds, Rezeption in der Islamischen Kunst for the Journal of the American Oriental Society 122/3 (2002), pp. 657-58
Anna Contadini, Fatimid Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum and Irene Bierman, Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text for Journal of the American Oriental Society 120/2 (2000), pp. 271-3
Jay Gluck & Noël Siver, eds, Surveyors of Persian Art: A Documentary Biography of Arthur Upham Pope & Phyllis Ackerman for Iranian Studies 31/1 (1998), pp. 100-102
Michael Meinecke, Patterns of Stylistic Change in Islamic Architecture: Local Traditions versus Migrating Artists [Hagop Kevorkian Series on Near Eastern Art] for MESA Bulletin 32/1 (Summer 1998), pp. 48-9
Barbara Finster, Frühe iranische Moscheen vom Beginn des Islam bis zur Zeit saljuqischer Herrschaft for Iranian Studies 30/1-2 (Winter/Spring 1997), pp. 146-8
Mohamed-Moain Sadek, Die mamlukische Architektur der Stadt Gaza for Mamluk Studies Review 1 (1997), pp. 178-79
Nasser O. Rabbat, The Citadel of Cairo: A New Interpretation of Royal Mamluk Architecture for Journal of the American Oriental Society 117/2 (1997)
Muqarnas 9 for Journal of the American Oriental Society 117/2 (April-June 1997), pp. 381-82
Michael Meinecke, Die mamlukische Architektur in Ägypten und Syrien for Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 54 (March 1995), pp. 108-9
Catherine Asher, Architecture of Mughal India, Ars Orientalis 24 (1994), pp. 154-55
George Michell and Richard Eaton, Firuzabad: Palace City of the Deccan for American Journal of Archaeology 98/1 (January 1994), pp. 181-2
Gülru Necipoglu, Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapı Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries for Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 52/3 (September 1993), pp. 365-67
Nezar Alsayyad, Cities and Caliphs: On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism for Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 52/3 (1993), p. 371
with Sheila S. Blair, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Persica 15 (1993-95), pp.77-90
Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Islamic Architecture in Cairo: an Introduction for Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 50/4 (December 1991), p. 470
Myriam Rosen-Ayalon: The Early Islamic Monuments of al-Haram al-Sharif: An Iconographical Study for American Journal of Archaeology 95 (1991), pp. 188-89
K. A. C. Creswell, A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture, revised and ed. J. W. Allan for Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 49/3 (September 1990), pp. 330-31
Priscilla Soucek, ed. Content and Context of Visual Arts in the Islamic World, A Symposium in Memory of Richard Ettinghausen for Iranian Studies 22/2-3 (1990), pp. 135-36
Lisa Golombek and Donald Wilber, The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan for Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 48/3 (September 1989), pp. 303-4
Stephen Urice, Qasr Kharanah in the Transjordan for Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 26 (1988), pp. 254-55
Susan Downey, Mesopotamian Religious Architecture for American Journal of Archaeology 93/4 (October 1989), p. 612
Hasan Mohammed el-Hawary and Gaston Wiet, Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum. Quatrième Partie: Arabie. Inscriptions et Monuments de la Mecque: Haram et Ka‘ba. Tome I (fascicule 1). Revised and edited by Nikita Elisséeff for Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 28 (1991), pp. 240-41
Lionel Bier, Sarvistan: A Study in Early Iranian Architecture for American Journal of Archaeology 91 (1987), p. 639
Richard Parker, Robin Sabin, and Caroline Williams, Monuments of Islamic Cairo, A Practical Guide for Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 23 (1986), pp. 217-18
Duncan Haldane, Islamic Bookbindings in the Victoria and Albert Museum. for MESA Bulletin 19/1 (July 1985), pp. 100-1
Abbas Daneshvari, ed., Essays in Islamic Art and Architecture in Honor of Katharina Otto-Dorn for Design Book Review (November 1983)
Yanni Petsopoulos, ed., Tulips, Turbans and Arabesques for MESA Bulletin 17/1 (Spring, 1983), pp. 85-86Jonathan M. Bloom Page 13 Revised 1/5/21
Richard Parker, A Practical Guide to Islamic Monuments in Morocco. for Middle East Journal 63/4 (Autumn, 1982), pp. 622-23

COURSES OFFERED
Art and Ideology in Medieval Iraq, Syria, and Egypt
Art of the Islamic Book
Early Islamic Architecture
Iconography of Islamic Architecture
Introduction to Islamic Art
Introduction to Medieval Islamic Architecture
Islamic Architecture in the Maghrib
Islamic Civilization
Later Islamic Architecture
Later Islamic Art
Masterpieces of Islamic Art
Medieval Architecture
Medieval Art
Monuments of Asia
Orientalism
The Paper Trail
Shrines and Pilgrimage in Medieval Islam
The Art and Architecture of Egypt
The Art of the Fatimids in Egypt
The Arts of Islamic Spain
The City of Jerusalem
The City of Cairo
The Mosque
The Writings of Meyer Schapiro
Urbanism in the Medieval Mediterranean World

LECTURES PRESENTED
September 2019 “The Fatimid Public Text Revisited,” at the conference, Inscriptions from the Islamic World, sponsored by the American University in Cairo and St. And rew’s University. Cairo, Egypt
August 2019 “Paper before Print,” at the Bookbinders’ Association biennial meeting, Bath, England.
February 2019 “Islamic Domes,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
June 2019 “The Norman Palace in the Islamic Mediterranean Context,” International Conference on the Norman Palace, Palermo, Sicily
May 2018 Fatimid Objects in the Medieval West,” at the symposium, "Intersections: The Visual Cultures of Islamic Cosmopolitanism.” co-sponsored by the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History
at University of Texas at Dallas, the Islamic Art Revival Series of the Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation and the Aga Khan Council in Dallas, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Ismaili Jamatkhana in Plano. October 2017 “Silk Road or Paper Road,” Society for Asian Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
June 2017 “Writing a New History of Western Islamic Architecture,” Research Seminar in Islamic Art, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
June 2017 “Silk Road or Paper Road,” Royal Asiatic Society, London, England
April 2016 “The Minaret in the Seljuq Period,” The Architecture of the Iranian World 1000-1250, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland
April 2016 “Fatimid Painting Reconsidered,” Myers Symposium: New Studies in Islamic Painting, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
November 2015 “Ten Years of the Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium,” and “How Paper Changed Islamic Literary and Visual Culture,” By the Pen and What They Write, Writing in Islamic Art and Civilization, the Sixth Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Civilization, Doha, QatarJonathan M. Bloom Page 14 Revised 1/5/21
October 2015 “Books and Islamic Culture: the Role of Paper,” Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, an exhibition at Boise State University, Boise, ID
March 2015 “The Islamic Book,” from Paper to Calligraphy, Annual Humana Lecture, Centre College, Danville, KY
June 2014 “Paper in the Mongol Period,” New Directions in the Study of the Mongol Empire, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
May 2014 “The Marble Mihrab Panels of the Great Mosque of Kairouan,” The Aghlabids and their Neighbours, UNC Winston House, London, England
April 2014 “Paper and the Islamic Book,” 25th Annual Mason Library Lecture, Keene State College, Keene, NH
November 2013 “Arabic Inscriptions on Islamic Architecture,” Manuscripts and Epigraphy, Center for Manuscript Studies, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
October 2013 “The Islamic Book,” Annual Book History Symposium, Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Amherst, MA
October 2013 “Paper and the Islamic Book,” Barbara Price Curlin Endowed Lecture, University of Texas at El Paso
October 2013 “Islamic Papermaking and Technology,” Middle East Studies Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA
May 2013 “The Minarets of Jerusalem,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
April 2013 “The Cordoban Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque in Marrakesh,” Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies, Granada, Spain
April 2013 “Towers in the Central Mediterranean,” Beyond the Western Mediterranean, Courtauld Institute, University of London, UK
April 2013 “Paper before Print: the Role of the Islamic Lands in the Transfer of Knowledge between China and Europe,” University of Texas, Arlington; University of North Texas, Denton; Ismaili Jamatkhana, Plano
March 2013 “Papermaking in the Islamic Lands,” 2013 Brownell Lecture, University of Iowa, Iowa City
February 2013 “The Great Mosque of Córdoba in the 10th Century,” Virginia Commonwealth University
March 2012 “Architectural ‘Influence’ and the Hajj,” Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, British Museum, London, UK
February 2012 “Paper and the Islamic Book,” Frederic W. Goudy Lecture, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
October 2011 “Visual Arts of the Sufis,” Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire, Lincoln, NH
September 2011 “Art and Architecture of the Silk Road,” Mariposa Museum, Peterborough, NH
August 2011 “Paper and the Islamic Book” and “Islamic Book Structures,” Foundation of the American Institute of Conservation Workshop, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
August 2011 “The Book in the Islamic Lands,” Montefiascone Conservation Workshop, Montefiascone, Italy
July 2011 “From Top to Bottom: Western Islamic Sources for the Cappella Palatina, Palermo,” Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, University of Southampton, UK
April 2011 “Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Arts of Morocco and Spain,” Mariposa Museum, Peterborough, NH
April 2011 “Paper and the Arts of the Islamic Lands,” Colgate University
February 2011 “The Paper Road,” Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
February 2011 “Arthur Upham Pope,” Friends of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
November 2010 “Shahnama Images in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” The Illustrated Shahnama, British Institute of Persian Studies and the Royal Society, London
September 2010 “Arthur Upham Pope: His Life and Times,” Arthur Pope and a New Survey of Persian 

Art, The
Art Institute of Chicago
June 2010 “Is there Latin behind the Aghlabid Inscriptions of Tunisia?” Viewing texts: Word as image and
ornament in medieval inscriptions, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
May 2010 “The Blue Koran Revisited,” Codicología e historia del libro manusrito en caracteres árabes,
Conseiljo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid
May 2010 “Islamic Art in Tunisia,” Interactions in the Mediterranean Basin, Summer school of the
Kunsthistorisches Institut Florence/Max-Planck-Institute with support from the Getty

Foundation
March 2010 “Art 1000 Years Ago: The Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-‘Amr Allah (r. 996-1021) and the Arts,”
Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Yale UniversityJonathan M. Bloom Page 15 Revised 1/5/21
February 2010 “The Introduction of Paper to Europe,” Early Paper: Transmission and Techniques, Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University
February 2010 “The Expression of Power in the Art and Architecture of Early Islamic Iran,” International
Symposium: The Idea of Iran: the Last of the Persian Dynasties, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London

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