J. M. Rogers

John Michael Rogers is a specialist in Islamic art history, and Khalili Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art, SOAS, University of London (since 1991).
Biography.
Born in 1935, Rogers studied philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1958), after which he was awarded a research fellowship in philosophy at Oriel College, and taught philosophy at Pembroke College and Wadham College. As his interests shifted from philosophy to Islamic art, he learned Turkish, and earned a PhD on the architectural patronage of Seljuq Anatolia under Samuel Stern and Victor Ménage.
Rogers taught Islamic art at the American University in Cairo, 1965-1977. In 1977 he joined the British Museum, as a curator in the Department of Oriental Antiquities, where he organized several exhibitions including "Islamic Art and Design" (1983), and "Suleyman the Magnificent" (1988). He was also responsible for the installation of the Islamic collections in the John Addis Gallery in 1989.
From 1991 to 2000, Rogers was the Nasser D. Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at SOAS, University of London. Since 1992, has been Honorary Curator of the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. He was a Member of Council at the British Academy, 1992-1995.
Selected publications.
For a fuller bibliography, 1965-2004, see "Essays in Honor of J.M. Rogers", ed. by Gülru Necipoğlu, Doris Behrens-Abouseif and Anna Contadinia (Brill, 2004)
A special publication was prepared in his honour in 2004: "Essays in Honor of J.M. Rogers", ed. by Gülru Necipoğlu, Doris Behrens-Abouseif and Anna Contadinia (Brill, 2004)