Peter Jackson is a British scholar and historian, specializing in the

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, particularly the contacts between the Europeans and the

Mongols Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China ( Inner Mongolia and other 11 autonomous territories), as well as the republics of Buryatia and Kalmykia in Russia. The Mongols are the principal member of the large family o ...

as well as medieval Muslim

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. He is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at

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and editor of ''The Cambridge History of Iran: The Timurid and Safavid Periods''. His main research interests are on the relations between the Mongols and the Latin West between 1220 and 1410, and he has written extensively on the topic, exploring the concepts of medieval Europe, the Crusades, medieval Russia and the Mongols, especially the clash of cultures, and the interconnectedness of legends such as that of

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Academic career

Graduating from

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, in 1971, he was awarded a PhD from Cambridge in 1977 for the thesis "The Mongols and India, 1221–1351". In 1979 he was appointed lecturer in history at

, becoming a senior lecturer in 1991. He was awarded a personal chair in medieval history in 2002.Profile on Crusader Studies web site www.crusaderstudies.org.uk/resources/historians/profiles/jackson/index.html - retrieved May 2017 Mongol soldiers by Rashid al-Din 1305

Research

His 1999 book ''The Delhi Sultanate'' was described by a reviewer as amongst the most distinguished works on the medieval Islamic world in our time ''

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'', April 2001, p. 554 and was scheduled for translation into Arabic. In this book, the geographical extent of his scholarship, his linguistic skills, and his extensive knowledge of medieval Islamic geography enabled him to compress into a single volume a nuanced assessment which was rooted in close textual analysis and a mastery of the linguistic problems presented by his sources, reminiscent of the research of Simon Digby. His latest book on the Mongols and the Islamic World has been described as a work of great erudition which demonstrates Peter Jackson's life-long understanding of both the Muslim and the European sources for the history of the Mongols. Jackson also held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. In 2011 he retired as Professor Emeritus, and was elected a

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in 2012.
British Academy Annual Report 2012/13
' (London:

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, 2013), pp. 37–38

Books

* The Fall of the Ghurid Dynasty (chapter) in "Studies in Honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Volume II", Brill 1998, . * * * * * * ''From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia''. 2024. Yale University Press. . Translator of *

Books edited

* "The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 6 — The Timurid and Safavid Periods",

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1986,

Notes

References

List of publications

External links

* http://www.pearson.ch/HigherEducation/Longman/1449/9780582368965/The-Mongols-and-the-West-1221-1410.aspx * http://journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid=856308 * http://journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid=988376 {{DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, Peter Living people British historians Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of Keele University Historians of the Crusades Fellows of the British Academy Historians of India Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge