Cailah Jackson

Postal address: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road, Oxford OX3 0EE

Tel: +44 (0) 1865 185 517

Email: cailah.jackson@oxcis.ac.uk

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

“The 1373 Mas̲navī of Tāj al-Dīn Shaykh Ḥusayn Bey,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

“Illuminated Qurʾan manuscripts of late medieval Rūm,” in The Word Illuminated: Form and Function of Qur’anic Manuscripts, ed. Simon Rettig and Sana Mirza (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press).

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.

“Patrons and Artists at the Crossroads: The Islamic Arts of the Book in the Lands of Rūm, 1270s–1370s (thesis abstract),” Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 3, no. 1 (2017): 48–51.

“Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240–1330’ by Patricia Blessing,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 74, no. 2 (2015): 388–90.