Oleg Grabar
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Oleg Grabar was a French-born art historian and archeologist, who spent most of his career in the United States, as a leading figure in the field of Islamic art and architecture in the Western academe
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey
Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem
Dome of the Rock
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The Dome of the Rock is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic ar
Oleg Grabar
…manuscript, Epic Images and Contemporary History: The Illustrations of the Great Mongol Shahnama (Chicago, 1980). He was also a noted scholar of the Dome of the Rock, after the appearance of his article "The Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem." His work Penser l'art islamique : une esthétique de l'ornement denotes…
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Panorama of the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, including its Qibli Mosque and the gold-roofed Dome of the Rock, from the Mount of Olives
Interior of the dome
View of the circular inner arcade around the dome