#  David Roxburgh 

 



 ##  

  expand\_more  

 
  

 

#### Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Department of History of Art and Architecture

   ![David Roxburgh](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/aisp/files/david_roxburgh.jpg?itok=ZdyxKk3U) 

 

**David J. Roxburgh** grew up in the Borders, Scotland, and attended Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art from 1983 until 1988 where he received an M.A. with Honors in Fine Art. His degree combined history of art with studio practice (school of sculpture). He won a Thouron Fellowship for a one-year exchange program at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1988 and enrolled in the doctoral program in the Department of History of Art. He carried out his doctoral thesis research in Istanbul and completed the thesis in Washington, D.C., as a fellow at the Smithsonian Institution and Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, in 1996.



 

##  Courses 

 



  [### Monuments of Islamic Architecture

 ](https://courses.harvard.edu/detail?q=id:d_colgsas_2018_1_126634_001&returnUrl=search%3Ffq_coordinated_semester_yr%3Dcoordinated_semester_yr%253A%2522Sep%2Bto%2BDec%2B2018%2B%2528Fall%2BTerm%2529%2522%26q%3DIslam%26sort%3Dcourse_title%2520asc%26start%3D0%26rows%3D25) An introduction to ten iconic monuments of the Islamic world from the beginning of Islam to the early modern period. The course introduces various types of building-mosques, palaces, multifunctional complexes-and city types and the factors that shaped... 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 Video Publications 

## Video

 

 

[**A Timurid Embassy from Herat to Beijing, 1419-22, Recorded by Artist Ghiyath al-Din Naqqash: Timurid Art After China**](https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/file/968177) [Download](https://vimeo.com/101963138#aisp)



 



 

 

 

## Publications

 

 

Embed



 





 



 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Alwaleed Faculty ](/person/alwaleed-faculty)