Finding aid for the Oleg Grabar papers
FAC.GRABAR

Summary Information

Repository
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Creator
Grabar, Oleg
Title
Oleg Grabar papers
ID
FAC.GRABAR
Date [bulk]
Bulk, 1960-2010
Date [inclusive]
1947-2010
Extent
12.0 linear feet 12 cartons of paper records plus 4.73 GB digital files
Language
English

Preferred Citation note

The suggested citation for the material is "[item], Oleg Grabar papers, Box [box number], From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA."

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Scope and Contents note

The Oleg Grabar papers contain files related to his writing, research, and teaching, including correspondence, drafts and manuscripts, research materials, and photographic materials. There is also correspondence with colleagues and information on awards and honors that Grabar received.

July: Files from IAS office. Project files. Publications. Correspondence with colleagues. Loose visual materials, including three film reels, a VHS cassette, a framed photograph of Jerusalem, and an unframed group photograph of the Princeton University Bicentennial Conference on Scholarship and Research in the Arts featuring Oleg Grabar's father, Andre Grabar.

September: Files on various writing and research projects, including correspondence, drafts and manuscripts, and research materials. Photographic materials in binders, including prints and slides.

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Arrangement note

The papers are arranged into three series:

IAS Office Files Home Office Files Electronic Files

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center

Historical Studies-Social Science Library
Einstein Drive
Princeton
NJ, 08540
609-734-8375
archives@ias.edu

Conditions Governing Access note

The collection is open for research.

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Donated by Terry Grabar in multiple accessions in 2011 and 2012.

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Collection Inventory

IAS Office files 

Project Files 
Box

Kabbalah and the Theology of the Ancient Persians / Kabbalah and the Isfahan Holy Ark by Michael Moskowitz 2005-2006 and undated 

 1

Aga Khan Trust Library 1994-1995 

 1

Prophet? (illegible) undated 

 1

Illegible undated 

 1

Oleg Grabar - C.V. 2009 

 1

Aga Khan Trust 2007 

 1

Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations (AKU_ISMC) 2004 

 1

American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1987-1992 

 1

Armenia 1994 

 1

Azerbaijan 

 1

Bangladesh 1997 

 1

Bulgaria 1993-1997 

 1

Egypt: Cairo 2001 

 1

College de France 2002-2003 

 1

Duke Foundation 2001-2002 

 1

Dumbarton Oaks 2008 

 1

Met Visiting Committee 2010 

 1

Egypt 2007 

 1

Freer Gallery 2000-2001 

 1

Getty Foundation 1996-2007 

 1

Iran 2004-2007 

 1

Islamic Art Positions 2007 

 1

Ismaili Institute 2004-2005 

 1

Istanbul 1998-2010 

 1

Sabanci 2006-2009 

 1

Jewish Art 1997 and undated 

 1

Israel 2009-2010 

 1

Jerusalem 1991-1993, 2009 

 1

Jewish Art 1995-2000 

 1

Jordan 2007 

 1

Kuwait 1998-1999 

 1

Umich 2008 

 1

Art Concret Mathematics 2008 

 1

Frankfurt 2005 

 1

MESA (Middle East Studies Association) 2002 

 1

Kelsey Museum 1998-2000 

 1

Oxford 2008 

 1

Paris Bibliotheque Nationale 1997-2009 

 1

Relics undated 

 1

Russia - names, addresses 1991-1992 and illegible 

 1

Sackler - Ernst Herzfeld Papers 1993 

 1

Shahnama 2000-2001 

 1

Silk Road Project 1989-1994 

 1

Smithsonian 1994-1995 

 1

TASWIR 2010 

 1

Damascus 2003-2006 

 1

Tajikistan 2005 

 1

UCLA 1995-1999 

 1

Pelican Book 2009 

 1

UNESCO-EPHE 2001 

 1

van Berchem 1985-2008 

 1

Fondation Beyeler 2000-2001 

 1

La Donation Albers-Honegger 2004-2005 

 1

Oleg Grabar - Publications 

 Box
2

Professional Correspondence 
Box

Abdullaeva, Firuza 2008 

 3

Abu El-Haj, Nadia 2006 

 3

Abouseif, Doris 1998 

 3

Ackerman, James S. 1997 

 3

Adahl, Karin 1993-2002 

 3

Adamova, Adel 2010 

 3

Arkoun, Mohammed 1994-2006 

 3

Atanasiu, Vlad Radu 1997-2006 

 3

Al-Azmeh, Aziz 2000-2001 

 3

Bagherzadeh, Firouz 1975-1985 

 3

Bakalova, Elka 1997-1999 

 3

Bahat, Dan 2006 

 3

Bakirer, Omur 1997 

 3

Baimatowa, Nasiba 2010 

 3

Balcioglu, Emin 1995 

 3

Barjesteh, Eli 2007 

 3

Barrucand, Marianne 2000 

 3

Barry, Michael 2003 

 3

Beliaev, Leonid 1995-1999 

 3

Berlin State Library 1995-2001 

 3

Bier, Carol 1995 

 3

Bisheh, Ghazi 1983-1996 

 3

Brahimi, Salem 2008 

 3

Branham, Joan 1994-1995 

 3

Brand, Michael 1988-2010 

 3

Bürgel, J.C. 1991-1992 

 3

Burgoyne, M.H. 1976-1977 

 3

Busse, Heribert 1989-1995 

 3

Carrier, David 2006-2007 

 3

Centlivres, Pierre 2004-2005 

 3

Chabane, Djamel 2009? 

 3

Chelkowski, Peter 2002-2004 

 3

Chadirji, Rifat 2005 

 3

Chakroun, Lamia 2008-2009 

 3

Choksy, Jamsheed 2002 

 3

Chatelet, Albert 1991-1992 

 3

Chmelnizkij, Sergej 1987-2006 

 3

Clay, Jean 1992-2007 

 3

Creswell, A. 1938 

 3

Crone, Patricia 1996 

 3

Dagron, Gilbert 2002-2007 

 3

Deemer, Khalid 1984-1999 

 3

Deroche, F. 1985-1997 

 3

de Vaux, R. 1961-1962 

 3

Dodkhudoeva, Larisa 2003-2005 

 3

Dold, Yvonne 1998 

 3

Duda, Dorothea 2004 

 3

Ettinghausen, Richard and Elizabeth 1953, 2006 

 3

Farhad, Massumeh 1999 

 3

Ferguson, Daniel 2009 

 3

Fernandez-Puertas, Antonio 1986 

 3

Finster, Barbara 1987-2007 

 3

von Folsach, Kjeld 1998 

 3

Fumaroli, Marc 1996-1999 

 3

Fargnoli, Jayne 2010 

 3

Fowden, Garth 1993-2004 

 3

Gardner Films 2010 

 3

Garidis, Nelly 1985-1997 

 3

Girleanu, Ana-Maria 2009 

 3

Goitein, S.D. 1964-1969 

 3

Genequand, Charles 2001 

 3

Georgopoulou, Maria 2007 

 3

Golombek, Lisa 1971-1982 

 3

Grube, Ernst 1961-2010 

 3

Hammad, Manar 2010 

 3

Hillenbrand, Robert 1970-2008 

 3

Hoffman, Eva (Finkelstein) 1997 

 3

Necipoglu, Gulru 1982-2008 

 3

Blair, Sheila 1977-1983 

 3

Al-Asad, Muhammed 1993-2001 

 3

Rogers, Michael 1973-1988 

 3

Foote, Rebecca 1992-1993 

 3

Klimburg-Salter, Deborah 1972-2002 

 3

Kuban, Dogan 1965-1991 

 3

Denny, Walter (unfoldered) 1973 

 3

Grigor, Talinn 2007 

 3

Guilbaud, Carol and Serge 2006 

 3

Hamilton, Robert 1995 

 3

Kessler, Herbert 1984-1988 

 3

Alhathloul, Saleh 2007 

 3

Hawari, Mahmoud 2005 

 3

Ibrahim, Laila Ali 1989 

 3

Ihsanoglu, Ekmeleddin 2002-2003 

 3

Inal, Guner 1964-1989 

 3

Imsnmutdinova, Zilya 2003-2004 

 3

Kedar, Benjamin 2010 

 3

Kramarovsky, Mark 1996-2003 

 3

Ivanov, Anatol 1962-2001 

 3

Johns, Jeremy 2004 

 3

Labrusse, Remi 2007-2008 

 3

Lepage, Claude 2005 

 3

Makariou, Sophie 2008 

 3

Makiya, Kanan 2001 

 3

Meddeb, Abdel undated 

 3

Melville, Charles 1999 

 3

Moaz, Abdal Razzaq 2000 

 3

Muzj, Maria Giovanna 1996-2005 

 3

Natsheh, Yusuf 2010 

 3

Nikonorov, Valery 2006 

 3

Notkin 1991-1992 

 3

Olin, Margaret 1994-1995 

 3

El Omrani, Abdelouadoud 2009 

 3

Ory, Solange 2007 

 3

Pugachenkova, G.A. 1972-1985 

 3

Rice, D.S. 1954 

 3

Roxburgh, David 2003-2004 

 3

Sack, Dorothée 2000-2001 

 3

Salam-Liebich, Hayat 2007 

 3

Schefer, Jean-Louis 2009 

 3

Sénéchal, Philippe 2004 

 3

Shahid, Irfan 1998 

 3

Seyller, John 2001 

 3

Sharon, M. 1993 

 3

Sherzad, Salah 2010 

 3

Smirnova, Engelina 1995-1998 

 3

Sodini, Jean-Pierre 2009 

 3

Sourd, Jean-Michel 2008 

 3

Spieser, Jean-Michel 1995-1997 

 3

Starodub, Tatiana 1992 

 3

Taragan, Hana 1993-2008 

 3

Thomas, Thelma 2000 

 3

Torcheditions 2002-2003 

 3

Toubert, Pierre 2006 

 3

van Staevel, Jean-Pierre 2008 

 3

Vibert-Guigue, Claude 1998-2007 

 3

Wirth, Eugen 1990-2002 

 3

Weiss, Zeev 2003 

 3

Welch, Anthony 2001 

 3

Yenisehirlioglu, Filiz 1986 

 3

Yousuf, Abd el Ra'uf 1960-1978 

 3

Yusupova, Mavlyuda 2005 

 3

Zahar, Leon Rodriguez 1992-2000 

 3

Zhukov, Konstantin 1999 

 3

Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2010 

 3

Miscellaneous unfiled 2010 

 3

Visual and Audiovisual Materials 
Box

Two metal film canisters, 12" reels, 16mm? film undated 

 4

Red plastic film container, sent from Hal Wallis Productions, 12" reel, 16 mm film undated 

 4

VHS cassette, possibly marked "Persepolis" undated 

 4

Panoramic photograph of Jerusalem 1950s 

 5

Group photograph of Princeton University Bicentennial Conference on Scholarship and Research in the Arts 1947 

 5

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Home office files 

Project files (from filing cabinet) 

General note

when multiple files related to a subject were in one pendaflex, only the overall title is given
Box

Arab Painting 2003-2004 

General note

includes 3.5" disk

 1

Ikats 1999-2001 and undated 

 1

Persian Painting 1992-2005 and undated 

General note

includes 3.5" disk

 1

Pourquoi parler d'images dans l'art islamique 2005 

General note

in French

 1

Riegl, the arabesque, and Islamic art 2006 

General note

German and English

 1

Kitab al-diryaq, Jaclynne J. Kerner 2004 and undated 

General note

includes 6 CDs and 1 negative strip; French and English

 1

Baghdad in Islamic Art undated 

 1

Roundtable at the Louvre 2007 

General note

French

 1

Damascus 2006-2008 

General note

conference and subsequent volume

 1

La Aljaferia de Zaragoza y el Islam Occidental en el siglo XI 2004-2008 

General note

Spanish and English

 1

Arts of Iran in Lare Antiquity undated 

 1

the early sources of Shahnameh illustrations 2008 

 1

TNR 2009 

General note

piece for The New Republic about Danish cartoon of Muhammad controversy

 1

Prophet 2006-2009 

General note

piece for The New Republic about Danish cartoon of Muhammad controversy

 1

Pilgrimage 2008-2009 

 1

Middle Eastern Art 2004-2005 and undated 

 1

Silver Plates 2005 and undated 

General note

includes 2 CDs

 1

The Representation of God undated 

 1

The Book in the Islamic World 2010 

 1

Ihor Ševčenko 1994, 2010 

General note

remarks and related material for memorial

 1

Shi'ism 1995, 2009 

 1

Berlin Museum 2009 

 1

Pre-Islamic Central Asia undated 

General note

photostats and notes - from here to end of drawer, copies start with material from the 1960s; unclear when other materials were compiled; appear to be related to teaching

 1

Fatimid - Gifts undated 

General note

photocopies and notes

 1

Mihrab 1961 and undated 

 1

Gardens undated 

 1

Ornament - Modern Theory undated 

General note

photocopies and notes

 1

Ornament - Architecture undated 

General note

photocopies and notes

 1

Ornament - Calligraphy 1994 and undated 

 1

Islamic City undated 

General note

photocopies

 1

Palaces undated 

General note

notes

 1

Palaces 1965-1977 and undated 

 1

Muqarnas - Lecture undated 

 1

Astrology and Astronomy 1979 and undated 

 1

Astrology and Astronomy undated 

General note

photocopies and notes

 1

Ornament - Geometry undated 

 1

Ornament and Geometry 2002 and undated 

 1

Ornament and Geometry undated 

 1

Islamic Art and Symbolism undated 

 1

Theories of Islamic Art 1963 and undated 

 2

Theories of Islamic Art undated 

 2

Theories of Islamic Art undated 

 2

Minarets 1987 and undated 

 2

Muhammad: images undated 

 2

Chinese Source undated 

 2

Mandylion 2002 and undated 

 2

Descriptions of Prophets: Xian + undated 

 2

Prophet _?: Heraclius undated 

 2

Prophet: General 1992-2002 and undated 

 2

Untitled 2003 

General note

appears to be related to a lecture in March 2003

 2

Texts: Arabic: Basic Texts undated 

 2

Stories of portraits: everywhere 2001-2002 and undated 

 2

Other Prophets and Islam undated 

 2

Prophets: Ottoman - _? undated 

 2

Sacred Image undated 

General note

includes 3.5" disk

 2

Sacred: Islamic 1997 and undated 

 2

Sacred Mosquées Legal 1997 and undated 

 2

Sacred General undated 

 2

Penn Seminar: The Sacred in Art undated 

 2

Sacred: Generalities undated 

 2

Sacred - Temples? undated 

General note

Russian, French, and English

 2

Dome 2000-2002 and undated 

 2

Untitled undated 

General note

about artisans, ceramics and related topics

 2

Dome 2002 

 2

Dome 1998 and undated 

 2

Cairo: Ibn Tulum undated 

General note

English, French and Arabic

 2

Fatimid History undated 

 2

Mecca undated 

 2

Mecca undated 

General note

Arabic and English

 2

Medina undated 

General note

French and German

 2

Damascus undated 

General note

French, German and English

 2

Arch. Wasit (Iraq) undated 

General note

Arabic and English

 2

Sikandarah Akbar__? undated 

 2

Taj Mahal 1985 and undated 

 2

Fatipur Sikri undated 

 2

Islamic India undated 

 2

Untitled undated 

 2

Samarqand - Arch. undated 

General note

mostly reprints in French and Russian

 2

Lashkari Bazar 1962 

General note

French

 2

Sistan - Arch. undated 

 2

Ghazni - Arch. undated 

General note

Italian and English

 2

Herat - Arch. 1978 

 2

Bistam - Arch. 1987-1988 

General note

French

 2

Konya - Arch. undated 

 2

Arch. Seljuk - Anatolia undated 

 2

Seminar: The Islamic Book undated 

 2

Raqqa 1989 

General note

French and Arabic

 2

Pre-Islamic Arabia undated 

 2

Painting (blue dots) 

 2

Alexander the Great undated 

 2

Albums Istanbul 1969 and undated 

 2

Bahram Gur 1963 and undated 

 2

Solomon (general) undated 

 2

Solomon: ___? undated 

 2

Jami al-Tawarikh 2002 and undated 

 2

Materia Medica undated 

 2

Qazvini - Manuscript Aja'ib al-Mahlukat undated 

 2

Notes on Persian Manuscripts undated 

 3

Maqamat undated 

 3

Painting: Timurid undated 

 3

Notes on Arabic Manuscripts undated 

 3

Seminar Reports: Istanbul Albums 1969-1971 and undated 

 3

Paintings - General undated 

 3

Persian Painting - General undated 

 3

Shadow Plays undated 

 3

Islam and Images undated 

 3

Calligraphy (yellow dots) undated 

General note

3 folders

 3

Metal Work (green dots) 1970-1979 and undated 

 3

Metal Work Bird 1994-1995 and undated 

 3

Ceramics (red dots) undated 

 3

Ceramics - Iran undated 

 3

Ceramics 1980 and undated 

 3

Ceramics undated 

 3

Textile undated 

 3

Woodwork undated 

 3

Mantle of Roger II undated 

 3

Solomon and West 1997-1998 and undated 

 3

Indiana Seminar undated 

 3

Illustrations 2008 and undated 

 3

Mosque: Lecture undated 

General note

seem to be for courses he taught or invited academic lectures

 3

Mosque: Articles undated 

 3

Lectures - Columbia 1967 

 3

Early Islamic Architecture Lectures 1987 

 3

Theory of Architecture Lecture 1986 and undated 

 3

Islamic Art: 1000-1300 Lecture undated 

 3

Islamic Art and Society Lecture 1973 

 3

Islamic Art and Society Lecture 1975 

General note

end of Drawer 3

 3

Series: Photo Binders 
Box

Modern Islam/W. Orientalism/Islam - West 

General note

slides

 3

Objects: metal, ceramics 

General note

slides

 3

Maps: Arabia, Iraq, Turkey (Armenia), Egypt, Pakistan 

General note

slides

 3

Iran - North and Other 

General note

slides

 3

Arab painting, Demott albums and teaching aids 

General note

slides

 5

Shah-Nama 15-16 c./Haft Awrang/Diwan of Hafiz/Indian and Ottoman 17 c. Portraits: Persian and Indian 

General note

slides

 5

Khoja Kirmani/Ahman Jalayir/Mantiq al-Tayr/Kalila Wa Dimna/Anthologies/Cairo Bustan/Siyah Qalam/Other 15 c. Paintings 

General note

slides

 5

Persian Paintings: school scene, fiber camp, palace scene/B.L.Nizami 

General note

prints

 5

Persian Paintings 17th-18th cen. 

General note

prints and negatives

 5

Persian Paintings 15th cen. 

General note

prints

 5

Calligraphy 

General note

slides

 5

Spain/Morocco 

General note

slides

 5

Iran - North 

General note

slides

 5

Paintings 14th cen. 

General note

prints

 6

Writing (calligraphy) 

General note

prints

 6

Central Asia 

General note

slides

 6

Afghanistan 

General note

slides

 6

Objects: Ivories, Wood, Textiles (incl. Mantle) 

General note

slides

 6

Sculpture 

General note

prints

 6

Europe/Sicily/Geometry 

General note

slides

 6

Syria/Jordan/Palestine 

General note

slides

 6

Isfahan and area 

General note

slides

 6

China/India 

General note

slides and prints

 6

Jerusalem - Plans 

General note

slides

 7

Jerusalem - Haram 

General note

slides

 7

Huam: Mir Sayyid/'Ali; Nizami Khamoe? 

General note

slides

 7

Persian Paintings 16th cen. 

General note

prints

 7

Central Asia, South and East Asia 

General note

prints

 7

Jazirah/Syria 

General note

prints

 7

Project Files (from desk) 

 Box
8
Box

Jerusalem Animations 1993 

General note

VHS cassette

 8

Early Islamic: Arabic and Kora? Writing undated 

 8

Early Islam undated 

 8

Loose correspondence 1992-2010 

 8

Reading 1999- undated 

General note

notes and articles

 8

Istanbul Manuscripts 1954, 1956, 1960 

General note

notebook with handwritten notes

 8

Lectures - Ornament undated 

 8

untitled notebook undated 

 8

Ornament 1998 

 8

Loose correspondence 1966, 2000-2009 

General note

includes a list of Ph.D. students, presumably advised by Grabar

 8

Dome of the Rock 2006 

 8

Jerusalem: O.G. notes 1953-1972 

 8

Jerusalem 2010 

General note

includes notes about a potential IAS initiative involving Adler and Witten

 8

Sicility boxes - folders 1992 and undated 

 8

Roger II's Mantle 

General note

binder

 8

Umayads box - folders 

 8

Additional home office files - packed 1/30/2012 
Box

The Threads of a life (family history by Oleg Grabar); includes several older photographs 2009-2010 and undated 

 1

Aga Khan 1996-1998 

 1

Gifts 2003 

 1

In Honor of Oleg Grabar: gift presented to Grabar upon his retirement from Harvard; includes letters from many students and colleagues 1990, 1993 

 1

Photographs and slides 1960s-2000s 

 1

Presence of Persia: U-matic videocassette 9/19/1979 

General note

U-matic videocassette

 1

In Memoriam: Oleg Grabar: offprint from Muqarnas Volume 28 2011 

 1

In Memoriam: Oleg Grabar: program from memorial event at the Memorial Church, Harvard University 4/23/2011 

 1

The page as a work of art 2007 

 1

The Object in and of Islamic Art 7/2/1905 

 1

Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity 2009-2010 

 1

From the Icon to Aniconism undated 

 1

Notes on Historiography undated 

 1

Sacred, holy, religious 2002-2003 

 1

Historiography undated 

 1

Arts of Iran 2009 

 1

Kelsey Museum Newsletter spring 2003 

 1

Middle East Medievalists 2003 

 1

Asia Society, The Friends of Asian Arts Annual Dinner 2002 5/7/2002 

 1

Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre Award 1995 

 1

Indiana University 1985 

 1

Turkiye Cumhuriyeti 1973 

 1

King Fahd Awards for Design & Research in Islamic Architecture 1985-1986 1987 

 1

Association of American Publishers, Inc., Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division: plaque 1996 

 1

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Electronic files 

Home Office Files on 1 CD 1990s-2010 

 Box
1

17 3.5" floppy disks containing correspondence, 1995-1998 and several publications: files mostly in WordPerfect and Microsoft Word formats 1995-1998 

 1

IAS Network Files 

Email 

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Plates for publications   0.5 linear feet

"The Mediation of Ornament" plates 

Unidentified manuscript color plates