The Ohio State University The Department of History of Art The College of the Arts

Howard Crane—Professor

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Howard Crane

Professor Crane is an expert in the field of Islamic art and architecture, with a concurrent interest in the area of Near Eastern archeology. He has published widely in the field, including numerous entries in the Dictionary of Art on matters Islamic and the Encyclopedia of Islam. He is working on his current book, a translation of 16th century Ottoman biographical texts on the architect Sinan, the Ottoman Michelangelo. Over the years, his research has been supported by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (at Harvard and MIT) and the Institute of Turkish Studies (at Georgetown University). He has also worked extensively as a field archaeologist, having been a surveyor for the Helmand-Sistan Expedition in Afghanistan (Smithsonian Institute 1971–73) and is currently the Islamicist for the Archaeological Survey of Sardis (Turkey 1975–Present).


Publications

    Books, Edited Volumes, & Exhibition Catalogues

  • The Garden of Mosques: Hafiz Huseyin al-Ayvansarayi's Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000).
  • "Anatolian Seljuq Architecture and its Links to Seljuq Iran," in The Art of Seljuqs in Iran and Anatolia, Robert Hillenbrand, ed. (Costa Mesa: Mazda, 1994), pp. 263–274.
  • "Evliya Celebi's Journey Through the Pamphylian Plain in 1671–72," Muqarnas, 10 (1993), pp. 157–68.
  • "Seljuk Patrons in Thirteenth Century Anatolia," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 36/1 (1993) pp. 1–57.
  • "The Ottoman Sultans' Mosques: Icons of Imperial Legitimacy," in Urban Structures and Social Order: The Ottoman City and Its Parts, Irene Bierman and Donald Preziosi, eds. (New Rochelle, 1991), pp. 153–212.
  • Risale-i Mi'mariyye. An Early Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Treatise on Architecture. (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1987).
  • "Art, Architecture and Urban Forms," Part III. D, The Cambridge History of Turkey, Vol. I, Byzantium to Turkey, 1071–1453, I. Metin Kunt, ed. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, in press).

Seminars, Lectures & Presentations

    Other

  • Art under the "Pax Mongolica": the Mongols and the art of the Mongolian World of the 13th-14th Centuries.
  • Occidentalism: the impact of the West on the art and architecture of the Islamic world in the 18th-19th centuries
  • History and Art History in the Study of Islamic Societies
  • The Hajj: the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca