Foreword

Charles MELVILLE

HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

The Historiography of Safavid Prefaces

Sholeh A. QUINN

The Early Years of Shah Isma`il in the Afzal al-tavarikh and Elsewhere

A.H. MORTON

The Iconography of the Shah-nama-yi Shahi

Robert HILLENBRAND

Kinship Ties between the Safavids and the Qizilbash Amirs in Late Sixteenth-Century Iran: a Case of the Political Career of Members of the Sharaf al-Din Ogli Tekelu Family

Maria SZUPPE

Le Dar al-Saltana de Qazvin, deuxieme capitale des Safavides

Ehsan ECHRAQI

Sufis, Dervishes and Mullas: the Controversy over Spiritual and Temporal Dominion in Seventeenth-Century Iran

Kathryn BABAYAN

Shic`i Rituals and Power II. The Consolidation of Safavid Shic`ism: Folklore and Popular Religion

Jean CALMARD

Shahc `Abbas and the Pilgrimage to Mashhad

Charles MELVILLE

"Barrier of Heterodoxy"?: Rethinking the Ties between Iran and Central Asia in the Seventeenth Century

R.D. McCHESNEY

SOCIETY AND COMMERCE

Persian during the Safavid Period: Sketch for an Etat de Langue

John R. PERRY

Similar Farmans from the Reign of Shah Safi

Iraj AFSHAR

The Rise of the Julfa Merchants in the Late Sixteenth Century

Edmund M. HERZIG

The Dutch and the Persian Silk Trade

Willem FLOOR

The Character of the Urbanisation of Isfahan in the Later Safavid Period

Masashi HANEDA

Unwalled Cities and Restless Nomads: Firearms and Artillery in Safavid Iran

Rudi MATTHEE

General Index