CONTENTS -- Foreword -- PART ONE HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Hātifī's Tīmurnāma and Qāsimī's Shāhnāmeh-yi Ismāīl: Considerations towards a Double Critical Edition -- The Timurid Historiographical Legacy: A Comparative Study of Persianate Historical Writing -- Illustrated Persian Ajāib al-makhlūqāt manuscripts and their Function in Early Modern Times -- PART TWO SOURCES ON SAFAVID SOCIETY AND CULTURE -- Maktūb and Majmūa: Essential Sources for Safavid Research -- New Light on the Reign of Shah Abbās: Volume III of the Afdāl al-Tavārīkh -- Safavi Iran as Seen Through Venetian Eyes -- PART THREE CULTURE AND PATRONAGE IN THE SAFAVID PERIOD -- The Ardabīl Carpets in Context -- Shah Abbās and the Transfer of the Safavid Capital from Qazvin to Isfahan -- The Sarcophagus of Shah Ismāīl at Ardabīl -- PART FOUR ART AND IDENTITIES -- Muhammad Qāsim and the Isfahan School of Painting -- Another Career for Mīrzā Alī? -- Epic Images Revisited: An Ilkhanid Legacy in Early Safavid Painting -- PART FIVE CULTURE, ECONOMY AND POLITICS IN PERIPHERIES AND CENTRES -- The Sixteenth Century School of Bukhara Painting and the Arts of the Book -- The Safavid Mint of Huwayza: The Numismatic Evidence -- PART SIX THE SPIRITUAL REALM: MOVEMENTS, MANUSCRIPTS, MEDICINE AND MONEY -- After the Messiah: The Nūrbakhshiyya in Late Timurid and Early Safavid Times -- Popular Literature Under the Safavids -- "Noqtaviyya" à l'époque Safavides -- The Immigrant Manuscripts: A Study of the Migration of Shīī Works From Arab Regions to Iran in the Early Safavid Era -- Bāqir al-Majlisī and Islamicate Medicine: Safavid Medical Theory and Practice Re-examined -- Safavid Administration of Avqāf: Structure, Changes and Functions, 1077-1135/1666-1722 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.