Jali

Categorized as Terms

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.

Portrait of Leslee Katrina Michelsen

Leslee Katrina Michelsen works at the US Department of State now as the Director of International Expositions and previously as the Director of the National Museum of American Diplomacy. She has served as the Senior Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design in Honolulu, as well as the Head of the Curatorial and Research Section at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. Dr. Michelsen has worked on numerous cultural heritage and archaeology projects throughout Central Asia, South Asia, and East Africa stretching from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar. She is a specialist of materiality and making, as well as contemporary museology and cultural heritage. She co-founded the first MA program in Museum Studies in Uzbekistan at the Silk Road University in Samarkand, sits on the Board of Directors of ICOM-US (where she is also Co-Chair of the Programs Committee), and serves as a peer reviewer for the American Alliance of Museums.