Academic Career
Grabar attended the University of Paris, where he studied ancient, medieval, and modern history, before moving to the US in 1948. He got degrees from both Harvard and the University of Paris in 1950. In 1955, he obtained a PhD from Princeton University.
He served on the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1954-69, before moving to Harvard University as a full professor. In 1980, Grabar became Harvard's first Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture. He was a founding editor of the journal Muqarnas in 1983. He became emeritus from Harvard in 1990, and then joined the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, becoming emeritus there in 1998.
According to the President of the Historians of Islamic Art Association, "Grabar transformed the fields of Islamic art, architecture and archaeology through his myriad scholarly works, general textbooks, and through training and inspiring many generations of undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Michigan and at Harvard."
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