Jonathan Bloom

Jonathan M. Bloom is an American art historian and educator, serving as the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College alongside his wife Sheila Blair. He specializes in the history of Islamic art and architecture, including research on minarets, paper, and the Fatimid dynasty, and has co-authored several books with Blair. Now retired, he has also contributed to documentaries like PBS's 'Islam: Empire of Faith.'