PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATION -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND BRIEF CITATIONS -- LIST OF MAPS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I THE LITERARY SOURCES -- 1 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS -- 2 CHRONOLOGY -- 3 RELIGION AND THE SARBADARS -- 4 THE EPIGRAPHIC REMAINS -- DESCRIPTION -- 5 ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION -- PART III A HISTORY OF THE SARBADÄR DYNASTY -- 6 BACKGROUND -- 7 THE EARLY PERIOD -- 8 THE MIDDLE PERIOD -- 9 THE LATE PERIOD -- PART IV ASPECTS OF THE SARBADÄR PERIOD -- 10 GEOGRAPHY -- 11 PHILOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- APPENDIX -- THE NUMISMATIC SOURCE -- INDEX.