Medieval Monuments of Central Asia

Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries

Richard P. McClary (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2397-7 (ISBN)

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This is a comprehensive study of the surviving monuments of the Qarakhanids – an important yet little-known medieval dynasty that ruled much of Central Asia between the late 10th and early 13th centuries. Based on extensive fieldwork and many hard-to-find Russian sources, the book places the surviving monuments into the wider cultural context of the region. Many photographs and new ground-plans are included, as well as detailed studies of individual monuments and the wider architectural aesthetic. These monuments serve as the link between the mostly lost Samanid architecture and the far larger and better-known monuments of the Timurids.

Dr Richard Piran McClary is a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of York. He received his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 2015. He has lectured extensively on a range of subjects related to medieval Islamic art and architecture, and has conducted fieldwork in India, Iran, Turkey, Central Asia and across the Middle East. He is a specialist in the architecture and ceramics of the medieval Iranian world, and the history of the Islamic art market. He has published three monographs; Mina’i Ware: A Reassessment and Comprehensive Study of Iranian Polychrome Overglaze Wares through Sherds (EUP, 2024), Medieval Monuments of Central Asia. Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries (EUP, 2020), and Rum Seljuq Architecture 1170-1220. The Patronage of Sultans (EUP, 2017). He has edited Stucco in the Islamic World: Studies of Architectural Ornament from Spain to India (EUP, 2025), and co-edited a volume with Andrew Peacock, entitled Turkish History and Culture in India. Identity, Art and Transregional Connections (Brill, 2020). He has also published articles in numerous journals, including: Muqarnas, Iran, Persica, Anatolian Studies, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, and the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. He has served as a trustee and the Research Director for the British Institute of Persian Studies, and is managing editor of the Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture.

List of Figures

Series Editor’s Forward

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 Antecedent Structures in the Region

CHAPTER 2 The Earliest Intact Tomb: Shah Fazl at Safid Buland

CHAPTER 3 The Development of a Style: Three Tombs at Uzgend

CHAPTER 4 Bukhara: A Study of Three Structures

CHAPTER 5 Minarets of the Qarakhanids

CHAPTER 6 The Qarakhanid Aesthetic: Structural Methods and Decoration

CHAPTER 7 Epigraphic Styles: The Numismatic and Architectural Evidence

CHAPTER 8 Urban Developments under the Qarakhanids: The Archaeological and Textual Evidence

CONCLUSION

Bibliography

Gazetteer

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2019
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
Zusatzinfo	37 black and white illustrations, 184 colour illustrations, 57 black and white line art
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 244 mm
Gewicht	1024 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4744-2397-3 / 1474423973
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-2397-7 / 9781474423977
Zustand	Neuware