Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s

Cailah Jackson is the Salem and Bakr bin Ladin Junior Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. She is the recipient of several awards including the 2018 BRISMES Leigh Douglas Memorial Dissertation Prize and the 2017 HIAA Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize.

• IntroductionIlluminated manuscripts in late thirteenth-century KonyaEarly fourteenth-century manuscripts from Konya and SivasTwo manuscripts from south-western RūmSātī ibn Ḥasan: A Mevlevi patron of ErzincanEpilogueBibliographyAppendix: Catalogue, Transliterations and Translations

A careful examination of fifteen illuminated manuscripts that elucidates the social, intellectual and economic networks in Konya and environs from the late thirteenth to late fourteenth century and expands our knowledge of books to other types of texts, non-courtly patrons, and new centers of production including madrasas, zawiyas and shrines.