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The KRC provides the perfect working environment for the following permanent members of faculty staff:

 

James Allan, Professor of Eastern Art and one of the world's leading experts on Islamic metalwork

 

Jeremy Johns, Director of the Khalili Research Centre, Professor of the Art & Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean

 

Oliver Watson, I.M. Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture

 

Zeynep Yurekli-Gorkay, University Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture

 

Luke Treadwell, Samir Shamma Lecturer in Islamic Numismatics and Assistant Keeper in the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, an expert in the monetary history of Islam before the Mongols

 

The KRC also houses research staff and their projects, including:

 

Teresa Fitzherbert, an expert on 14th-century Iranian miniature painting, and the Archivist of the Creswell Photographic Archive, Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum

 

Mahmoud Hawari, The Salahuddin Y.H. Abduljawad Fellow, who is completing a comprehensive architectural and archaeological study of the Citadel of Jerusalem

 

Mr Michael Macdonald, Research Associate and Lead Researcher on The Ancient Arabia: Languages and Cultures Project

 

Alex Metcalfe, KRC Research Associate and Visiting Scholar at Wolfson, and an expert in the history of Islamic and Norman Sicily

 

Dr Marek Jankowiak, Newton International Fellow and KRC Research Associate

 

The following University scholars are also affiliated with the Khalili Research Centre:

 

Andrew Topsfield, Keeper of the Eastern Art department at the Ashmolean Museum