Andras J. Riedlmayer (Harvard University)

Submitted: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 16:52:12 -0400 (EDT)

Andras J. Riedlmayer
Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture
Aga Khan Program 
Fine Arts Library
Harvard University
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 021338
U.S.A.
                            
Phones:     (617) 495-3372
FAX         (617) 496-4889  
Email:      riedlmay@fas.harvard.edu
 
 
 Since 1985, I've directed the Documentation Center for Islamic Art and
 Architecture at Harvard's Fine Arts Library, documenting the visual
 culture of all parts of the Islamic world, supporting instruction
 and research in these fields and providing reference services to
 local users and visiting scholars.  

 My own research interests include Ottoman and Safavid history; the study
 of manuscript sources and archival documents; the architectural history
 of Islamic shrines in Palestine; Islamic art and culture in the Balkans
 and Southeastern Europe; the protection of cultural heritage under
 national and international law; documenting the destruction of cultural 
 property during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina; aiding the 
 rebuilding of libraries and the recovery and reconstruction of cultural
 heritage in Bosnia; history of libraries and librarianship in the Muslim
 world; Ottoman and Turkish cooking and culinary history; Turkish and Turkic 
 language and literature.  
 
 Languages:  Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Chagatay, Azerbaijani, 
 Persian, Arabic, Hungarian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin,
 Dutch, Ukrainian, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian. 

 Librarian.