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Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty : Faculty & Staff

Christiane GruberChristiane Gruber

  • Assistant Professor of Islamic Art, Department of the History of Art

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • M.A. at University of Pennsylvania, 2001, Islamic Architecture
  • Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania, 2005, Islamic Art History

Research Interests

  • Texts and images of the Prophet Muhammad’s ascension
  • Illustrated manuscripts of the Turco-Persian world
  • Islamic codicology and paleography
  • Post-revolutionary Iranian art
  • Modern Islamic visual culture

Contact Information

chgruber@indiana.edu
1201 E. Seventh St., Office 129
(812) 855-6714

Courses Recently Taught

  • Sacred Places
  • Survey of Islamic Art and Architecture
  • Ottoman Istanbul:From Imperial Capital to Modern Meteropolis
  • Islamic Codicology and Paleography

Publication Highlights

  • The Ilkhanid Book of Ascension: A Persian-Sunni Prayer Manual (London: I.B. Tauris and British Institute for Persian Studies, forthcoming, Spring 2009).
  • “Between Logos (Kalima) and Light (Nur): Representations of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Painting,” Muqarnas 26 (Forthcoming, Spring 2009).
  • The Timurid Book of Ascension: A Study of Text and Image in a Pan-Asian Context (Valencia, Spain: Patrimonio Ediciones in collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2008).
  • Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy: an online catalogue of 355 calligraphic specimens in the Library of Congress (Washington D.C., 2006). URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/intldl/apochtml/apochome.html
  • “The Writing is on the Wall: Mural Arts in Post-Revolutionary Iran,” Persica, vol. 22 (2008), 15-46.
  • “Jerusalem in the Visual Propaganda of Post-Revolutionary Iran,” in Jerusalem: Idea and Reality, eds. Suleiman Mourad and Tamar Mayer(London: Routledge, 2008), 168-197.
  • “The Keir Micraj: Islamic Storytelling and the Picturing of Tales in the Fifteenth Century,” Central Eurasian Studies Review 4/1 (February 2005): 35-39. Also available online at:  http:cess.fas.harvard.edu/cesr/pdf/CESR_04_1.pdf
  • “L’Ascension (Micraj) du Prophète Mohammad dans la peinture et la littérature islamiques,” Luqman: Annales des Presses Universitaires d’Iran 39/1 (Fall & Winter 2003-4): 55-79.
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