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{{Short description|British historian}}
'''Peter Jackson''' {{small|[[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]]}} is a scholar and historian, specializing in the [[Crusades]], particularly the contacts between the Europeans and the [[Mongols]] as well as medieval Muslim [[India]]. He is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at [[Keele University]] and editor of ''The Cambridge History of Iran: The Timurid and Safavid Periods''.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/ruotsala.html
|title=Book review of 'The Mongols and the West, 1221–1410' by Peter Jackson
|author=Antti Ruotsala
|publisher=www.history.ac.uk
|access-date=2007-12-19
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928190225/http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/ruotsala.html
|archive-date=2006-09-28
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>

His main research interests are on the relations between the Mongols and the [[Latin West]] between 1220 and 1410,<ref name=cuhs>{{cite web|url=http://www.srcf.ucam.org/clio/events/clio_disp.php?past=1&year=2005&PHPSESSID=8133240914cbf010abf911e1e313c65f|publisher=Cambridge University History Society|title=Past CLIO events|access-date=2008-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071126102314/http://www.srcf.ucam.org/clio/events/clio_disp.php?past=1&year=2005&PHPSESSID=2d5e766530b4584ee621df73a3750c3b|archive-date=2007-11-26|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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 [[Prester John]].

==Academic career==
Graduating from St John's College, Cambridge 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 Keele University, becoming a senior lecturer in 1991. He was awarded a personal chair in Medieval History in 2002.<ref name=crus_stud>Profile on Crusader Studies web site www.crusaderstudies.org.uk/resources/historians/profiles/jackson/index.html - retrieved May 2017</ref>

[[File:Mongol soldiers by Rashid al-Din 1305.JPG| 200px|right|thumb|Mongol archers in Compendium of Chronicles of Rashiduldin Hamadani (1305). Depicted on cover of ''Mongols and the West'' by Peter Jackson]]

==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 <ref name=ahr>''[[American Historical Review]]'', April 2001, p. 554</ref> and was slated for translation into Arabic. In this book, the geographical extent of his scholarship, his linguistic skills, and his immense knowledge of medieval Islamic geography enabled him to compress into a single volume a nuanced
assessment which is rooted in close textual analysis and a mastery of the linguistic problems
presented by his sources, a rare mastery today and reminiscent of the research of [[Simon Digby (oriental scholar)|Simon Digby]].<ref name=ahr/> His latest book on the Mongols and the Islamic World has been described as a work of great erudition which benefits from Peter Jackson's life-long mastery of both the Muslim and the European sources for the [[history of the Mongols]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300125337/mongols-and-islamic-world | title=The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion | publisher=[[Yale University Press]] | author=Jackson, Peter | year=2017 | pages=640 | isbn=978-0-3001-2533-7}}</ref>

Jackson also held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. In 2011 he retired as Professor Emeritus, and was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] in 2012.<ref>''[http://www.britac.ac.uk/sites/default/files/British%20Academy%20Annual%20Review%202012-13.pdf British Academy Annual Report 2012/13]'' (London: [[The British Academy]], 2013), pp. 37–38</ref>

== Books ==

* {{cite book |title=The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History |year=1999 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521543293 }}
* {{cite book |title=The Mongols and the West, 1221-1410 |year=2005 |publisher=Longman |isbn=0582368960 }}
* {{cite book |title=The Seventh Crusade, 1244-54: Sources and Documents |year=2007 |publisher=Ashgate (Crusade Texts in Translation) |isbn=9780754657224 }}
* {{cite book |title=Studies on the Mongol Empire and Early Muslim India |year=2009 |publisher=Ashgate (Variorum Collected Studies Series) |isbn=9780754659884 }}
* {{cite book |title=The Mongols and the Islamic World|year=2017 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300125337 }}

Translator of
* {{cite book |title=The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Mongke, 1253-1255 |year=1990|author= Friar [[William of Rubruck]] |editor1=Peter Jackson |editor2=David Morgan |editor2-link=David Morgan (historian) |publisher=[[Hakluyt Society]] |isbn=0-904180-29-8 }}

== Notes ==
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==References==
* [https://www.webcitation.org/66rCG1lMt?url=http://www.keele.ac.uk/history/people/jacksonpeter/ 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
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