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Francesca Leoni
Francesca Leoni has been Curator of Islamic Art and Assistant Keeper at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, since 2011, after holding curatorial and research posts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2008–11), Rice University (2008–10), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2007–08). Her primary area of research is Islamic illustrated and illuminated manuscripts. In addition to the forthcoming volume Islamic Occultism in Theory and Practice (co-edited with Liana Saif, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, and Farouk Yahya), her books include the exhibition catalogue Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural (with Pierre Lory and Christiane Gruber, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 2016), Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art (co-edited with Mika Natif, Ashgate, 2013), and Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam (co-authored with Ladan Akbarnia, Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, 2010).