Notes on Robert McChesney

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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University.
Ph.D. from Princeton in 1973.
Editor of Iranian Studies.
Central Asia: Foundations of Change (1997),
Balkh in the Late Middle Ages (1993, ed. and trans. from the Russian work of A. Mukhtarov, with Nadia Jamal & Michael Lustig),
Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine (1991),
A Way Prepared: Studies on Islam in Honor of Richard Bayly Winder (1989, ed. with Farhad Kazemi),
Chapters in Central Asia Meets the Middle East (ed. David Menashri, 1997),
Safavid Persia: The History and Politics of an Islamic Society (ed. Charles Melville, 1996), and other chapters and journal articles.
McChesney, R. D. 1997. Agriculture and the Timerud Chahargagh: The Evidence from a Medieval Persian Agricultural Manual. In Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires: Theory and Design. Attilio Petruccioli (ed). Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill.
McChesney, Robert. 1988. Four Sources on Shah Abbas's Buildings of Isfahan. In Muqarnas V: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Oleg Grabar, ed. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
McChesney, Robert. 1997. The Royal Gardens of the Safavid Period: Types and Models. In Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires: Theory and Design. Attilio Petruccioli (ed). Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill.

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