Jali

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Jali

Leslee Michelsen

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References:

Asher, Catherine B. Architecture of Mughal India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 133.

Koch, Ebba. Mughal Architecture: An Outline of its History and Developments. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1991, p. 72.

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Merklinger, Elizabeth Schotten. Sultanate Architecture of Pre-Mughal India. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2005, pp. 83–84.

Michelsen, Leslee Katrina. “Jālī,” Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson. Brill: first published online 2021.

Tartakov, Gary Michael. “The Beginning of Dravidian Temple Architecture in Stone”, Artibus Asiae 42/1 (1980), pp. 39–99.

Zajadacz-Hastenrath, Salome. “A Note on Babur’s Lost Funerary Enclosure at Kabul”, Muqarnas 14 (1997), pp. 135–142.

Citation:

Leslee Michelsen, “Jali,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 7 November 2023.

Leslee Katrina Michelsen (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is the Director of the National Museum of American Diplomacy at the US Department of State. From 2017-2023 she served as the Senior Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design in Honolulu. She also was Head of the Curatorial and Research Section at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, from 2011-2016, and has worked on numerous cultural heritage and archaeology projects throughout Central Asia, South Asia, and East Africa. She is a specialist of materiality and making in mediums ranging from architecture to ceramics and textiles, as well as in contemporary museology and cultural heritage. She co-founded the first MA program in Museum Studies in Uzbekistan, which was dedicated to diversifying the global field of curatorial, interpretation, and collections specialists. She is on the Board of Directors of ICOM-US, where she is also the Co-Chair of the Programs Committee, and she also serves as a peer reviewer for the American Alliance of Museums.