• Oleg Grabar (November 3, 1929 – January 8, 2011) was a French-born art historian and archeologist, who spent most of his career in the United States,...
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    art and as a cultural and pious document", according to art historian Oleg Grabar. The Dome of the Rock's basic plan is essentially octagonal. It is capped...
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    world. His son Oleg Grabar also became an art historian, with a special interest in Islamic art and architecture. André Nicolaevitch Grabar was born on July...
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    Russian politician Oleg Grabar (1929–2011), French archeologist and historian of Islamic art, working in the United States Oleg Grachev (born 1974), Russian...
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  • Geoffrey Bawa, and in 2010 to historian of Islamic art and architecture Oleg Grabar. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV established the Aga Khan Award for Architecture...
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    ISBN 9789004161658. Ettinghausen, Richard; Grabar, Oleg; Grabar, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art and Architecture Oleg; Jenkins, Marilyn (2003-07-11). Islamic...
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    demolished after Heraclius retook Jerusalem. French American Academic Oleg Grabar believed that the Quranic Al-masjid al-aqṣā referred to one of two sanctuaries...
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    in c. 679–682. Its precise location is not known. The art historian Oleg Grabar deems it likely that it was close to the present mosque, while the historian...
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    Vahana Kamadhenu (similar winged cow creature) According to historian Oleg Grabar, "It is only at a relatively late date that the Muslim holy space in...
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    and rejected by some later scholars including Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, and Jonathan Bloom.: 30  Bloom also argues that the early Abbasid minarets...
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    Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art and Architecture Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar & Marilyn Jenkins...
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    Considered to be a masterpiece of Iranian architecture, according to Oleg Grabar, it achieves an "almost perfect balance between a purpose (princely glory...
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    Book 7, Number 331 Oleg Grabar, THE HARAM AL-SHARIF: AN ESSAY IN INTERPRETATION, BRIIFS vol. 2 no 2 (Autumn 2000) "Essay, Oleg Grabar, Copyright©2000 BRIIFS...
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    bricks on Gumti Gate According to Perween Hasan in a book edited by Oleg Grabar, the mosques of the Bengal Sultanate have several common features, including...
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    in c. 679–682. Its precise location is not known. The art historian Oleg Grabar deems it likely that it was close to the present prayer hall, while the...
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    al-Aqmar". In Muqarnas I: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Oleg Grabar (ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press, 37–52 [41], Wiet, "notes," pp...
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  • established as "perhaps the leading journal" in English in the field. Oleg Grabar was among the founders. The journal's name, muqarnas, is a decorative...
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    from Ambix. p. 36 Glen Warren Bowersock, Peter Robert Lamont Brown, Oleg Grabar. Late antiquity: a guide to the postclassical world. pp. 284–285 Roberts...
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  • Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2015. Oleg Grabar, ed. (1985). An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Brill. p. 110...
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    Umayyad architecture Sasanian art Desert castles Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, 2001, Islamic Art and Architecture: 650-1250...
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  • Soul." Glen Warren Bowersock, Peter Brown, Peter Robert Lamont Brown, Oleg Grabar, 1999, Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, page 40. Harvard...
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    Brown, Peter (1999). "Pagan". In Bowersock, Glen Warren; Brown, Peter; Grabar, Oleg (eds.). Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. Harvard University...
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    John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978-1118255315. Bowersock, Glen, Peter Brown, Oleg Grabar. Interpreting Late Antiquity: essays on the postclassical world. Belknap...
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    ascension discourse. State University of New York Press, 2008. p. 53 Oleg Grabar (2006). The Dome of the Rock. Harvard University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-674-02313-0...
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    "Christian Triumph and Controversy". In G.W. Bowersock; Peter Brown; Oleg Grabar (eds.). Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. Cambridge...
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    Guide to the Postclassical World, eds., G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, & Oleg Grabar. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 515–516. ISBN 0-674-51173-5...
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    Tipaldos, G. E., Great Greek Encyclopedia, Vol. XII, page 292, Athens, 1930 Oleg Grabar, "Umayyad Dome," Ars orientalis (1959), p. 50, cited after Berger (2012:164)...
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    Retrieved 28 August 2017. "Amber". (1999). In G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, Oleg Grabar (eds.) Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, Harvard University...
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    evangelists, thirteen domes, Christ and the twelve apostles." According to Oleg Grabar, the domes of the Islamic world, which rejected Christian-style iconography...
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    the site on which 'Umar founded the first mosque amidst ancient ruins. Grabar, Oleg (2000). "The Haram al-Sharif: An Essay in Interpretation" (PDF). Bulletin...
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