Oleg Grabar

According to the President of the Historians of Islamic Art Association, "Grabar transformed the fields of Islamic art, architecture and archaeology through his myriad scholarly works, general textbooks, and through training and inspiring many generations of undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Michigan and at Harvard.

"[4] Grabar's archeological and scholarly research covered a wide range of Islamic studies across Africa, the Middle East, and Muslim Asia.

[3][5] Early in his career, Grabar spent two years (1953 and 1960–1961) at the American School of Oriental Research in Jordanian-ruled East Jerusalem.

"[6] His work Penser l'art islamique : une esthétique de l'ornement denotes also reflections on the nature of Islamic art.

[9][10] 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.