Robert D. McChesney

Robert Duncan McChesney (born May 10, 1944^[1]) is a scholar of the social and cultural history of Central Asia, Iran, and Afghanistan.

Academic career

Robert D. McChesney was born in Northampton, Massachusetts) and received his B.A. in 1967 and his PhD in 1973 from Princeton University.

McChesney’s academic focus has been on the history Central Asia, Iran and Afghanistan from the time of the Mongol conquest through the early 20th century. Much of his work has centered on the connection of social history and architecture and the Islamic charitable institutions that supported architecture. He has taken a particular interest in the works of Afghan scholar

• "'Abd-al-Mo'men b. 'Abdallāh." Encyclopædia Iranica. [1] Archived 2008-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
• "'Abd-al-Qoddus b. Boltan Mohammād." Encyclopædia Iranica. [2] Archived 2008-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
• "'Abd-al-Rahmān b. Soyunj." Encyclopædia Iranica [3] Archived 2008-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
• "Abu'l-Hasan b. Mohammad Amin Golestāna." Encyclopædia Iranica .[4] Archived 2008-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
• "'Alāmārā-Ye Šāh Esmā 'Īl." Encyclopædia Iranica. [5] Archived 2008-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
• "Architecture and Narrative: The Khwaja Abu Nasr Shrine." Muqarnas, vol. 18 (2001) (Part One: Constructing the Complex and Its Meaning, 1469–1696) and vol. 19 (2002) (Part Two: Representing the Complex in Word and Image, 1696-1998).
• "Badī'-al-Zamān Mīirzā." Encyclopædia Iranica .[6] Archived 2008-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
• "Bark Ardār Torkmān." Encyclopædia Iranica. [7] Archived 2008-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
• "Bokārī Ākund Mollā Mohammad-Šarīf." Encyclopædia Iranica. [8] Archived 2008-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
• "Barrier of heterodoxy?" Rethinking the Ties Between Iran and Central Asia in the 17th century" in Pembroke Papers 4 (1996), 231-67.
• "Central Asia: Economy from the
  Timurids until the 12th/18th century," Encyclopædia Iranica. [9] Archived 2008-07-12 at the Wayback Machine

• Central Asia: Foundations of Change. Princeton&New Jersey: The Darwin Press, 1996.
• "Central Asia in the 16th_18th centuries" Encyclopædia Iranica. [10] Archived 2008-07-12 at the Wayback Machine

, 1992.

• Charity and Philanthropy in Islam: Institutionalizing the Call to Do Good. (Indianapolis: Indian University Press, 1995)
• "Corās. Šāh-Mahamud b Mīrza Fāzel." Encyclopædia Iranica. [11] Archived 2008-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
• "Economic and Social Aspects of the Public Architecture of
  Islamic Art
  , v. 2, 1987.
• Written by
  Fayz Muhammad's Account of the 1929 Uprising. (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers
  , 1999.)
• Fayẓ Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah’s Sirāj al-tawārīkh, The History of Afghanistan. Edited and translated by R.D. McChesney and M.M. Khorrami. Brill, 2016. 11 volumes.
• "Fayz Mohammad Kateb." Written with A. H. Tarzi. Encyclopædia Iranica. [12]^{[permanent dead link]}
• "Four Sources on Shah Abbas's Building of Isfahan," Muqarnas, v. 5, 1988.
• "Mohammad-Ayyub Khan." Encyclopædia Iranica, 2003.
• "Reconstructing
  Devin DeWeese (Bloomington
  2001).
• Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889. (Princeton:Princeton University, 1991.)
• "Waqf and public policy: the waqfs of Shāh 'Abbās 1011-23/1602-14" Asian and African Studies v. 15, no. 2, (July 1981), 165-90
• "Zamzam Water on a White Felt Carpet: Adapting Mongol Ways in Muslim Central Asia, 1550-1650," in Michael Gervers and Wayne Schlepp, eds., Religion, Customary Law, and Nomadic Technology (Toronto, 2000).

References

External links

• Robert D. McChesney’s Academic Website