#  David Roxburgh 

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

On leave 2025 - 2026

 

 

 



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 email <roxburgh@fas.harvard.edu> 

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David Roxburgh's research addresses the medieval and early modern Islamic arts, with a particular emphasis upon calligraphy, book production, and collecting in the Persian and Ottoman world. He is the author of *Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-Century Iran* (Brill, 2001) and *The Persian Album, 1400-1600: From Dispersal to Collection* (Yale University Press, 2005), as well as the editor of *Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, c. 1600-1900* (Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 2007).



 

 

 





 

 

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