Oleg Grabar (1929–2011)

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1. Sheila S. Blair

   Author of The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800 (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor), Islamic Calligraphy, Islamic Inscriptions

2. Oleg Grabar

   Author of The formation of Islamic art, The Mediation of Ornament, Mostly Miniatures: An Introduction to Persian Painting

3. Robert Irwin

   Author of Night & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature, The Alhambra (Wonders of the World), Islamic Art in Context (Perspectives) (Trade Version) (Perspectives (Harry N Abrams, Inc))

4. Sheila R. Canby

   Author of Persian Painting (Eastern Art), The Golden Age of Persian Art 1501-1722

5. Hugh Kennedy

   Author of The Court of the Caliphs: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century (2nd Edition) (History, Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus

6. Robert Hillenbrand

   Author of Islamic Art and Architecture, Islamic architecture : form, function, and meaning

7. John D. Hoag

   Author of Islamic Architecture

8. Richard Ettinghausen

   Author of Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250

9. Jerrilynn D. Dodds

   Author of Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain, The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture (Council on Foreign Relations Book Seri)

10. Clement Greenberg

    Author of Art and Culture: Critical Essays, The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 1: Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944

11. Marshall G. S. Hodgson

    Author of The Classical Age of Islam, The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods, The Venture of Islam, Volume 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times (Venture of Islam Vol. 3)

12. Sir K. A. C. Creswell

    Author of A short account of early Muslim architecture

13. Anthony Welch

    Author of Arts of the Islamic Book: The Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

14. Tarif Khalidi

    Author of Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

15. Esin Atil

    Author of Renaissance of Islam : art of the Mamluks

16. Toby Falk

    Author of Treasures of Islam

17. Thomas W. Lentz

    Author of Timur and the princely vision : Persian art and culture in the fifteenth century

18. James Trilling

    Author of The Language of Ornament (World of Art)

19. Ernst J. Grube

    Author of Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning

20. J. W. Wright

    Author of Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature