Papers by Richard P McClary
Mina'i Ware, 2024
I am delighted to announce that my new monograph on Mina'i Ware has just been published.
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Dec 14, 2017
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
Heritage Turkey, Dec 15, 2020
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Oct 1, 2020
only briefly in the introduction and chapter 12. This, despite the fact that it is, as the editor... more only briefly in the introduction and chapter 12. This, despite the fact that it is, as the editor makes clear, generally sidelined in scholarship on the Persian-speaking world. Tajikistan, which normally receives short shrift in histories of Persian literature, and hence could be considered marginal, is also ignored. The attempt to de-centre Persian studies when linguistic interactions in the centre remain understudied leads to another issue: the extent to which the roles of Persian in the different contexts studied here should be considered comparable. For example, does the highly proscribed use of Persian in Ming imperial edicts, studied in chapter 3, reflect the same processes as the creation of the literary network of Munīr Lāhūrī, studied in chapter 5? If a common mechanism underlies these two examples, the book does not bring it out explicitly, and as interesting as the epilogue is, it does not sift through the evidence provided in the foregoing chapters and give us a more granular idea of Persographia. Now that this volume has made the case for the domain of cosmopolitan written Persian, could the concept perhaps be refined, not on the basis of geography, but rather with other concerns in mind, such as genre, context of production, and reception? The frontiers of the Persianate world were, after all, dependent on the bearers of the culture and their intentions, rather than on any fixed point in space.
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Mar 1, 2017
Anatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the... more Anatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the geographical and chronological juncture between Byzantines and the Ottomans, its story tends to be read through the Seljuk experience. This obscures the multiple experiences and spaces of Anatolia under the Byzantine empire, Turko-Muslim dynasties contemporary to the Seljuks, the Mongol Ilkhanids, and the various beyliks of eastern and western Anatolia. This book looks beyond political structures and towards a reconsideration of the interactions between the rural and the urban; an analysis of the relationships between architecture, culture and power; and an examination of the region's multiple geographies. In order to expand historiographical perspectives it draws on a wide variety of sources (architectural, artistic, documentary and literary), including texts composed in several languages (Arabic, Armenian, Byzantine Greek, Persian and Turkish). Original in its coverage of this period from the perspective of multiple polities, religions and languages, this volume is also the first to truly embrace the cultural complexity that was inherent in the reality of daily life in medieval Anatolia and surrounding regions.
Bloomsbury Visual Arts eBooks, 2021
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Jun 23, 2020
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Jun 1, 2019
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