Hazar-baf

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Hazar-baf

Richard Piran McClary

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Related Khamseen Video:

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

References:

Golombek, Lisa. “The Draped Universe of Islam.” In Content and Context of Visual Arts in the Islamic World, edited by Priscilla Parsons Soucek, 25–49. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988. 

“hazār-bāf.” In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms, edited by P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, and W.P. Heinrichs. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

Kana’an, Ruba. “Architectural Decoration in Islam: History and Techniques.” In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, edited by Helaine Selin. Dordrecht: Springer, 2008.

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Citation:

Richard Piran McClary, “Hazar Baf,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 19 April 2022.

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.