Trained at the American University of Beirut (BA), the University of Wisconsin (MA) and New York University (Ph.d)
Taught at the University of Michigan (1969-81) and New York University (1981-present)
Research Interests:
Persian and Arabic Manuscripts
Portraiture
History of Collecting
Sample Courses:
Text and Image in Persian Manuscripts
The Qur’an and Material Culture
The Islamic Mediterranean in the time of the Crusades