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• Residence: 2006, Richmond, Cheshire, New Hampshire

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Professor Bloom teaches courses on the history of Islamic art and architecture. He also offers undergraduate seminars on such subjects as the arts of medieval Spain and the history of Cairo. His research has explored the history and development of the minaret, the history of paper, and the art of the Fatimid dynasty in North Africa and Egypt. He has written several books with Sheila S. Blair, his wife and co-holder of the Calderwood Chair, with whom he also served as principal consultant acclaimed documentary Islam: Empire of Faith, shown nationally on PBS. He is currently working on a book about architecture in the Western Islamic lands.

Jonathan married Sheila S. BLAIR. Sheila (daughter of William Sutherland BLAIR and Mary Seymour BARNES) was born on 26 Nov 1948 in Montreal, Quebec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 2006, Richmond, Cheshire, New Hampshire

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The flowering of Islam has been brought to the historical and cultural forefront of the modern world by a team of gifted flowers who bloom in the cultural garden of Richmond, NH. Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, who have lived on Old Homestead Highway since 1987, and where they raised two children, Felicity and Oliver, have emerged as two of the most well known and respected scholars in the field of Islamic art. Among their many books and writings is Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power, the companion reading to the acclaimed PBS documentary, Islam: Empire of Faith.

Born in Montreal, Sheila grew up in Connecticut. She attended Tufts, and later majored in Fine Arts and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. Jonathan grew up in New York, went to Harvard College, took an MA at the University of Michigan, and began his PhD at Harvard where he met Sheila. They both graduated with PhDs having traveled and researched throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.

William married Mary Seymour BARNES in 1945 in Seaford, Sussex, England. Mary (daughter of Kenneth Seymour BARNES and Dorothy Louise LOCKE) was born on 16 Jul 1922 in Montreal, Quebec; died on 3 Feb 2006 in Peterborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Carpenter Cemetery, Guilford, Windham, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1901, Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick

Kenneth married Dorothy Louise LOCKE. Dorothy was born on 3 Aug 1887 in Quebec; died on 22 Mar 1976 in Montreal, Quebec; was buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]