Contents
List of plates page / ix
List of text figures / xvii
List of maps / xix
List of tables / xix
Preface / xxi
1 The Jalayirids, Muzaffarids and Sarbadārs / 1
by H. R .Roemer, Emeritus Professor of Islamic History, University of Freiburg
2 Timur in Iran / 42
by H. R. Roemer
3 The Successors of Timur / 98
by H. R. Roemer
4 The Turkmen Dynasties / 147
by H. R. Roemer
5 The Safavid Period / 189
by H. R. Roemer
6 The Safavid Administrative System / 351
by R.M.SAVORY, Professor in the Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies, Trinity College, University of Toronto
7 European Contacts With Persia, 1350—I736 / 373
by the late Laurence Lockhart
8 Trade From the MID - 14 Th Century to the End of The Safavid Period / 412
by Ronald Ferrier, Historian to the British Petroleum Company
9 Social And Internal Economic Affairs / 491
by Bert Fragner, Professor of Iranian Studies, Free University of Berlin
10 The Exact Sciences in Timurid Iran / 568
by E. S. Kennedy, Professor of Mathematics, the American University of Beirut
11 Persian Science in Safavid Times / 581
by H. J. J. Winter, formerly Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Exeter
12 Religion in the Timurid and Safavid Periods / 610
by B. S. Amoretti, Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Rome
13 Spiritual Movements, Philosophy and Theology in the Safavid Period / 656
by s. H. Nasr, Professor of Islamics, Temple University, Philadelphia
14 Carpets and Textiles / 698
by F. Spuhler, Museum fur Islamische Kunst, Berlin
I5 (a) Timurid Architecture / 728
by R. Pinder-Wilson
(b) Safavid Architecture / 759
by Robert Hillenbrand, Reader in Fine Art, University of Edinburgh
16 (a) The Pictorial Arts in the Timurid Period / 843
by Basil Gray, formerly Keeper of the Oriental Antiquities, British Museum
(b) The Arts in the Safavid Period / 877
by Basil Gray
17 (a) Persian Literature in the Timurid and Turkmen Periods / 913
by Z. Safa, Emeritus Professor of Persian Literature, Tehran University
(b) Hafiz and His Contemporaries 929
by Annemarie Schimmel, Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture, Harvard University
(c) Persian Literature in the Safavid Period / 948
by Z. Safa
18 Persian Poetry in the Timurid and Safavid Periods / 965
by Ehsan Yarshater, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies, Columbia University, New York
Bibliographies / 995
Index / 1067
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