Professor Jeremy Johns
Position:Director of the Khalili Research Centre, Professor of the Art & Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean
Faculty / College Address:
The Khalili Research Centre
3 St John Street
Oxford
OX1 2LG
Tel. 01865 278198
Email:
jeremy.johns@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Main Areas of Research:
- The Arabic Documents of Norman Sicily (with Dr Nadia Jamil, Oxford, and Dr Alex Metcalfe, Lancaster) - Critical edition and study of the private and royal documents containing Arabic, from circa 1060AD to circa 1250AD
- The Book of Curiosities - Kitāb Gharāʾib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn - Contributions to the edition and study by Professor Emilie Savage-Smith and Dr Yossef Rapoport of an 11th-century Arabic cosmographical treatise
- Early Medieval Sicily: conquest and resistance from the Vandals to Frederick II, 450–1250 AD, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006–7
- The Faris Project (with Alison McQuitty et alii)
- The archaeological excavation and multidisciplinary study of a medieval village in Jordan (with various contributors)
- Kitāb Tāʾrīkh Jazīrat Ṣiqillīya – ‘History of the Island of Sicily’ (with Professoressa Vera von Falkenhausen, Rome)
- Critical edition, translation, and study of a Greek-Arabic chronicle of the Arab invasion and conquest of Sicily
Recent Publications:
- Ernst Grube and Jeremy Johns, The Painted Ceilings of the Cappella: Islamic Art, Supplement I, Genova and New York: The Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art and The East-West Foundation, 2005. ISBN 1872843816 - Purchase via www.eapgroup.com
- ‘Die arabischen Inschriften der Normannenkönige Siziliens: eine Neuinterpretation’ (and various catalogue entries), in Wilfried Seipel (ed.), Nobiles Officinae: Die königlichen Hofwerkstätten zu Palermo zur Zeit der Normannen und Staufer im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 31. März bis 13. Juni 2004), Milan: Skira, 2004. ISBN 3854970765 - Purchase via www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de
- ‘Una nuova fonte per la geografia e la storia della sicilia nell’XI secolo: il Kitāb Gharāʾib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn’, in La Sicile à l’époque islamique. Questions de méthode et renouvellement récent des problématiques [Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Moyen Âge 116/1], Rome, 2004. ISSN 11239883 - Purchase via www.publications.ecole-francaise.it
Selected Bibliography
- Ernst Grube and Jeremy Johns, The Painted Ceilings of the Cappella: Islamic Art, Supplement I, Genova and New York: The Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art and The East-West Foundation, 2005. ISBN 1872843816 - Purchase via www.eapgroup.com
- ‘Die arabischen Inschriften der Normannenkönige Siziliens: eine Neuinterpretation’ (and various catalogue entries), in Wilfried Seipel (ed.), Nobiles Officinae: Die königlichen Hofwerkstätten zu Palermo zur Zeit der Normannen und Staufer im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 31. März bis 13. Juni 2004), Milan: Skira, 2004. ISBN 3854970765 - Purchase via www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de
- ‘The boys from Mezzoiuso: Muslim jizya-payers in Christian Sicily’, in Robert G. Hoyland and Philip F. Kennedy (eds.), Islamic Reflections Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Professor Alan Jones, Gibb Memorial Trust, Cambridge, 2004. ISBN 090609450X - Purchase via www.oxbowbooks.com
- ‘Una nuova fonte per la geografia e la storia della sicilia nell’XI secolo: il Kitāb Gharāʾib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn’, in La Sicile à l’époque islamique. Questions de méthode et renouvellement récent des problématiques [Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Moyen Âge 116/1], Rome, 2004. ISSN 11239883 - Purchase via www.publications.ecole-francaise.it
- Nadia Jamil and Jeremy Johns, ‘Signs of the Times: Arabic Signatures as a Measure of Acculturation in Norman Sicily’, Muqarnas 21: Essays in Honor of Michael Rogers, Brill, 2004. ISBN 900413964 - Purchase via www.brill.nl
- ‘Archaeology and the History of Early Islam: The First Seventy Years’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 46 (2003). ISSN 00224995 - Purchase via www.brill.nl
- Jeremy Johns and Emilie Savage-Smith), ‘The Book of Curiosities: A Newly Discovered Series of Islamic Maps’, Imago Mundi, 55, 2003. ISSN 03085694 - Purchase via www.tandf.co.uk
- Jeremy Johns and Nadia Jamil, ‘An Original Arabic Document from Crusader Antioch (1213 AD)’, in Texts, Documents and Artefacts. Islamic Studies in Honour of D.S. Richards, ed. Chase F. Robinson, Brill, 2003. ISBN 9004128646 - Purchase via www.brill.nl
- Jeremy Johns, Arabic Administration and Norman Kingship in Sicily: The Royal Dīwān, Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0521816920 - Purchase via www.cambridge.org
- Jeremy Johns (ed.) Bayt al-Maqdis. Jerusalem and early Islam, (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, vol.9, part 2), Oxford University Press, 1999 - Purchase via www.krc.ox.ac.uk
- Julian Raby and Jeremy Johns (eds), Bayt al-Maqdis. ʿAbd al-Malik’s Jerusalem, (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, vol.9, part 1), Oxford University Press, 1993 - Purchase via www.krc.ox.ac.uk