Blair, Sheila
BLAIR, Sheila
BLAIR, Sheila. American. Genres: Art/Art history. Career: Editor, Macmillan Dictionary of Art, Islamic section. Publications: (with O. Grabar) Epic Images and Contemporary History: The Illustrations of the Great Mongol Shahnama, 1980; The Ilkhanid Shrine Complex at Natanz, Iran, 1986; (ed. with J.M. Bloom) Images of Paradise in Islamic Art, 1991; The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana, 1992; (with J.M. Bloom) The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800, 1994; Islamic Arts, 1997. Address: 85 2nd St. 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, U.S.A.
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