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June 8, 2006
Oleg Grabar Early Islamic Art, 650–1100: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Vol. 1 Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. 326 pp.; 98 b/w ills. Cloth $134.95 (0860789217)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2006.60

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The first of four volumes that will contain the collected essays of the doyen of Islamic scholars, Oleg Grabar’s Early Islamic Art has twenty selections. The fascinating introduction, which is too brief, explains how, starting as a medievalist, Grabar entered the field of Islamic studies. Arriving just at the end of the era when European imperialism dominated scholarship, he had the privilege, denied, alas, to scholars nowadays, to travel widely and do archeological excavations. In...