Mina’i

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Mina’i

Richard Piran McClary

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References:

Holod, Renata. “Event and Memory: The Freer Gallery’s Siege Scene Plate.” Ars Orientalis 42 (2012): 194–219.

McClary, Richard P. “Calouste Gulbenkian, his Mīnā’ī Ware, and the Changing Islamic Art Market.” Muqarnas 37 (2020): 321–39.

McClary, Richard P. “Mīnā’ī.” In Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson, 120–25. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021.

Michelsen, Leslee Katrina and Johanna Olafsdotter. “Telling Tales: Investigating a Mīnā’ī Bowl.” In Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod, edited by David J. Roxburgh, 66–87. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014.

Simpson, Marianna Shreve. “The Narrative Structure of a Medieval Iranian Beaker.” Ars Orientalis 12 (1981): 15–24.

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Richard McClary, “Mina’i,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 3 September 2021.

Richard McClary (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 2015) is a lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of York. His first monograph, entitled Rum Seljuq Architecture 1170-1220: The Patronage of Sultans was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2017, and his second, Medieval Monuments of Central Asia. Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries, also with EUP, appeared in press in 2020. He has co-edited a volume with Andrew Peacock, entitled Turkish History and Culture in India, Identity, Art and Transregional Connections (Brill, 2020), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on the topic of medieval Islamic architecture and ceramics. He is also a trustee and the Research Director for the British Institute of Persian Studies.