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Michael A. Barry


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Michael A. Barry (born 1948, in New York) is a Princeton University professor and historian of the greater Middle East and Islamic world. Since 2004 he has taught as Lecturer in Islamic Culture in Princeton's Department of Near Eastern Studies, in addition to serving as consultative chairman of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2005-2009) and special consultant to the Aga Khan Trust for Culture since 2009. An established authority on Islamic art and the history and culture of Afghanistan, on which subjects he has written extensively in both French and English, Barry's works include a standard French-language history of Afghanistan (Le Royaume de l'insolence), a biography of the late commander of the Afghan Nor ...more

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Massud il leone del Panshir...

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Le Royaume De L'insolence: ...

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Figurative Art in Medieval ...

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تفسیر مایکل بری بر هفت پیکر...

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Colour and Symbolism in Isl...

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A History of Modern Afghani...

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