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Eloïse Brac de la Perrière

Coordinator of the CallFront project

Professor of Islamic Art History
Sorbonne University

Scientific advisor
Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art

Contact / eloise.bracdelaperriere@inha.fr

Eloïse Brac de la Perrière is Professor of Islamic Art at Sorbonne University and scientific advisor for the Department of Studies and Research at the INHA, in charge of the section ‘Art history from the fourth to the fifteenth century’. She has devoted several studies to manuscripts in Sultanate India, including L’art du livre dans l’Inde des sultanats (2008) and Le Coran de Gwalior. Polysémie d’un manuscrit à peintures (2016). She has led a research program about the painted manuscripts of Kalīla wa Dimna at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and shared the curatorship of the exhibition “Paroles de bêtes (à l’usage des princes)” (Institut du monde arabe, Paris). Her work explores the social and material history in the frontier regions of the Islamic world and addresses the cross-cultural existence of writing forms and iconography.

Eloïse Brac de la Perrière is currently conducting the international research project Calligraphies at the Frontiers of the Islamicate World – CallFront, which is in continuation with her research on Bihari Qurans.