also reflections on the nature of Islamic art. Personal life Grabar was the son of the renowned Byzantinist André Grabar. Oleg Grabar and his wife Terry, a retired English professor, were married for 59 years. They had two children, Nicolas and Anne Louise, and three grandchildren, Henry, Olivia, and Margaret. Honors Grabar received many honors during his lifetime, including the Charles Lang Freer Medal in 2001 and, in 2010, the Chairman's Award at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture ceremony in Doha, where he made what was perhaps his last public speech. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Oleg Grabar, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 200+ works in 500+ publications in 13 languages and 15,000+ library holdings. City in the Desert with Renata Holod, James Knustad, and William Trousdale, Harvard University Press, (1978) Epic Images and Contemporary History: The Illustrations of the Great Mongol Shahnama (1982) The Mediation of Ornament (1992) The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Post-Classical World, with Glen Bowersock and Peter Brown, Harvard University Press, (1999) The Art and Architecture of Islam 650–1250, with Richard Ettinghausen and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, Yale History of Art, (2001) Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World edited with G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, Harvard University Press, (2001) Mostly Miniatures (2002) "Islamic visual culture, 1100–1800", Ashgate, (2006) The Dome of the Rock, Harvard University Press, (2006) "The Haram Al-Sharif: An Essay in Interpretation," BRIIFS vol. 2 no 2 (Autumn 2000). Constructing the Study of Islamic Art'', 83 collected articles (4 vols, 2005–06) See also Excavations at the Temple Mount Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade Notes External links Dictionary of Art Historians: Oleg Grabar Oleg Grabar's page at the Institute for Advanced Study Link broken, September, 2017 Oleg Grabar papers, 1898-2009 at the Getty Research Institute 1929 births 2011 deaths American art historians Historians of Islamic art Institute for Advanced Study faculty Princeton University alumni University of Michigan faculty Harvard University faculty French emigrants to the United States Harvard University alumni University of Paris alumni Members of the American Philosophical Society Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy