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[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Author: Richard Piran McClary Title: From Nakhchivān to Kemah: The western extent of brick Persianate funerary architecture in the 6th/12th century Keywords: Architecture, Tombs, Ildegüzid, Nakhchivān, Kemah Abstract: This paper is an investigation into the western extent of a regional school of funerary architecture that developed in the Ildegüzid ruled lands of north-west Iran in the 6th/12th century. The formal, decorative and epigraphic elements of two octagonal tombs, the Yūsuf ibn Kuthayyir tomb in Nakhchivān, (Azerbaijan) and the Mengücek Ghazi tomb in Kemah, (Turkey) are examined in detail.