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Indiana University Bloomington
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NAMEChristiane 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

  • Islamic painting and illustrated manuscripts
  • Islamic calligraphy
  • Modern Iranian art

Contact Information

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

Courses Recently Taught

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

Publication Highlights

  • “The Gulbenkian Baharistan: ‘Abd al-Aziz & the Bihzadian Tradition in 16th-Century Bukhara,”
    Conferences Collected Essays 1: Kamal al-Din Bihzad (Tehran: Iranian Academy of Arts,
    2005), 255-287 (published in Persian).
  • “The Prophet Muhammad’s Ascension (Mi’raj) in Islamic Painting and Literature: Evidence
    from Cairo Collections,” Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt 185 (Summer
    2004), 24-31.
  • “Divination,” in Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, ed. Joseph Meri (New York
    and London: Routledge, 2006), vol. 1 (of 2), 209-211.