Full name:
Dr Cailah Jackson
Positions held:
Salem and Bakr bin Laden Junior Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Research Associate, Khalili Research Centre, Faculty of Oriental Studies
Correspondence address:
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road, OX3 0EE
Email:
cailah.jackson@oxcis.ac.uk
Research interests:
- The arts of the book of the central/eastern Islamic world, ca 1000-1500
- Sufi (particularly Mevlevi) material culture
- Islamic art historiography, museology and collecting
Current project:
Manuscript production and patronage in western Persia, late 14th-early 15th c.
Recent publications:
“The Illuminations of Mukhlis ibn ʿAbdallah al-Hindi: Identifying Manuscripts from Late Medieval Konya,” Muqarnas 36 (2019): 41–60.
“An Illuminated Manuscript of Early Fourteenth-Century Konya? Anīs al-Qulūb (MS Ayasofya 2984, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Istanbul),” Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 8, no. 1 (2017): 85–122.
“Persian Carpets and the South Kensington Museum: Design, Scholarship and Collecting in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain,” Journal of Design History 30, no. 3 (2017): 265–81.
