Introduction. location of rule in a context of Turko-Mongol domination / David Durand-Guedy -- 1. Courts and court culture in the proto-urban and urban developments among the pre-Chinggisid Turkic peoples / Peter Golden -- 2. Sedentary Rulers on the Move: The Travels of the Early Ghaznavid Sultans / Minoru Inaba -- 3. From tents to city. the royal court of the western Qarakhanids between Bukhara and Samarqand / Yury Karev -- 4. The Tents of the Saljuqs / David Durand-Guedy -- 5. Court and Nomadic Life in Saljuq Anatolia / Andrew Peacock -- 6. Seasonal Capitals with Permanent Buildings in the Mongol Empire / Tomoko Masuya -- 7. Rulers and City Life in Mongol Central Asia (1220-1370) / Michal Biran -- 8. The Itineraries of Shahrukh b. Timur (1405-47) / Charles Melville -- 9. A Landscape of Fortresses: Central Anatolia in Astarabadi's Bazm wa razm / Jurgen Paul -- 10. The Castle and the Country: Spatial Orientations of Qipchaq Mamluk Rule / Kurt Franz -- 11. Between Tehran and Sultaniyya. Early Qajar Rulers and their Itineraries / Nobuaki Kondo -- Index -- List of figures.