Table of Contents

List of plates; List of text figures; List of maps; List of tables; Preface; 1. The Jalayirids, Muzaffarids and Sarbarbadars H. R. Roemer; 2. Timur in Iran H. R. Roemer; 3. The Successors of Timur H. R. Roemer; 4. The Türkmen dynasties H. R. Roemer; 5. The Safavid period H. R. Roemer; 6. The Safavid administrative system R. M. Savory; 7. European contacts with Persia, 1350–1736 Laurence Lockhart; 8. Trade from the mid-14th century to the end of the Safavid period Ronald Ferrier; 9. Social and internal economic affairs Bert Fragner; 10. The exact sciences in Timurid Iran E. S. Kennedy; 11. Persian science in Safavid times H. J. J. Winter; 12. Religion in the Timurid and Safavid periods B. S. Amoretti; 13. Spiritual movements, philosophy and theology in the Safavid period S. H. Nasr; 14. Carpets and textiles F. Spuhler; 15a. Timurid architecture R. Pinder-Wilson; 15b. Safavid architecture Robert Hillenbrand; 16a. The pictorial arts in the Timurid period Basil Gray; 16b. The arts in the Safavid period Basil Gray; 17a. Persian literature in the Timurid and Türkmen periods Z. Safa; 17b. Hafiz and his contemporaries Annemarie Schimmel; 17c. Persian literature in the Safavid period Z. Safa; 18. Persian poetry in the Timurid and Safavid periods Ehsan Yarshater; Bibliographies; Index.

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This volume covers the history of Iran from the collapse of the Il-Khanid empire (c. 1335) to the second quarter of the eighteenth century.