Research output per year
Research output per year
An historian of Islamic art and architecture, Dr. Ruggles’ research examines the medieval landscape of Islamic Spain and South Asia and the complex interrelationship of Islamic culture with Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism and the precise ways that religion and culture are often conflated in the study of these. She is the author of two award-winning books on gardens: Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain (2000), and Islamic Gardens and Landscapes (2008). Additionally she has edited or co-edited numerous works, including Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies (2000), the award-winning Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision (2007), Cultural Heritage and Human Rights (2007), Intangible Heritage Embodied (2009), On Location (2012), and Islamic Art and Visual Culture: An Anthology of Sources (2011). Her recent book Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr (2020) won the Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research. Her latest publication is Islamicate Environments: Water, Land, Plants, and Society (2025).
University of Pennsylvania, History of Art, M.A., and PhD.
Harvard University, Visual and Environmental Studies, A.B, cum laude.
Landscape Architecture
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Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Freeburg, C., Ruggles, D. F., Gammie, C. F., Imlay, J. A., Nahrstedt, K., Leakey, A., Oliver, C., Roberts, B. W. & Mouza, C.
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1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Ruggles, D. F. (Recipient) & Harris, D. (Recipient), 2009
Prize: Prize/Award
Ruggles, D. F. (Organizer)
Activity: Attendance types › Participation in conference
Ruggles, D. F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Ruggles, D. F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Ruggles, D. F. (Member)
Activity: Membership types › Membership of board