Cailah Jackson

cailahjackson
KRC Research Associate

Email: cjackson@alumni.oxon.net

Academia.edu: https://oxford.academia.edu/CailahJackson

 

Research interests:   

  • Codicology and the arts of the book of the central Islamic lands, ca 1000–1500   
  • Sufi material culture (particularly the Mevlevis)    
  • Orientalism in art and design, museology and Islamic art historiography

 

Forthcoming publications:

“Islamic Book Culture: Carpet Page.” In Handbook of Medieval Book Ornament, edited by David Ganz, Thomas Rainer, Sabrina Schmid, and Katharina Theil. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, forthcoming.

“Illumination in Late Medieval Baghdad and the Dispersal of the Jalayirid Style: A Forerunner of the Bāysunghuri Arts of the Book.” In Prince Baysunghur, Before and After: Timurid Manuscripts in Context, edited by Shiva Mihan. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.

 

Publications:

Mevlevi Manuscripts, 1268–c. 1400: A Study of the Sources (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

“Illuminated Qurʾan Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries).” In The Word Illuminated: Form and Function of Qurʾanic Manuscripts from the Seventh to Seventeenth Centuries, edited by Simon Rettig and Sana Mirza, 55–80. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2023.

“Unraveling a Medical Mystery: The Identity of ‘Geredeli’ İshak b. Murad, a Physician of Late Fourteenth-Century Rum,” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 9, no. 1 (2022): 125–50.

“The Arts of the Book in the Aydınid Realm: Exploring a Neglected Medical Manuscript from Late Fourteenth-Century Western Rum,” Muqarnas 39 (2022): 61–77.

“Reframing the Qarāmānids: Examining Cultural Life Through the Arts of the Book,” Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean 33, no. 3 (2021): 257–81.

“The 1373 Mas̲navī of Tāj al-Dīn Shaykh Ḥusayn Bey,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 31, no. 2 (2021): 195–217.

Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rūm, 1270s–1370s: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020).

“An Illuminated Manuscript from Late Fourteenth-Century Shiraz in the Bodleian Library,” Manuscript Studies 5, no. 2 (2020): 254–83.

“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.