Christiane Gruber

Christiane Jacqueline Gruber as well as a visiting at Sorbonne University. She has authored and edited well over a dozen books, including The Islamic Manuscript Tradition and The Praiseworthy One (2019).

Gruber was editor of H-Net's H-Islamart from 2008 to May 2010 and was president-elect of the Historians of Islamic Art Association from 2020 until June 2021. In 2015, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is creator of the open-access Islamic art education platform Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online.

Gruber has written articles for The Brooklyn Rail, The Conversation, Jadaliyya, New Lines Magazine, Newsweek, and Prospect. She protested the 2022 termination of a Hamline University art professor who showed images of Muhammad, collecting nearly 20,000 signatures for a Change.org petition.

Works Monographs The Timurid Book of Ascension (Mi‘rajnama): A Study of Text and Image in a Pan-Asian Context (2008) (with Sune Haugbolle) Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image (2013) (with Edward Linenthal and Jonathan Hyman) The Landscapes of 9/11: A Photographer’s Journey (2013) (with Bihter Esener) Regime Change: New Horizons in Islamic Art and Visual Culture (2024) Creative Dissent: Arts of the Arab World Uprisings (2013–2014)