Table of Contents

A note on Persian prosody, Hubert Darke; hawk and dove in Sufi combat, Simon Digby; some general accounts of the Safavid and Afsharid period, primarily in English, John Emerson; rewriting the social history of late Qajar Iran, John Gurney; the deportation of the Armenians in 1604-1905 and Europe's myth of Shah Abbas, Edmund Herzig; the execution of Amir Hasanak the Vazir - some lessons for the historical sociology of Iran, Homa Katouzian; the Barmakid revolution in Islamic government, Hugh Kennedy; the end of Czarist rule in Iran, Paul Luft; a note on the Maqama form, M.C. Lyons; some notes on premodern Islamic social description, Louise Marlow; SacDi's Arabic Ghazals, John Mattock; allusion in Hafiz - Joseph and his brothers, Julie Scott Meisami; Padshsh-i Islam - the conversion of Sultan Mahmud Ghazan Khan, Charles Melville; the date and attribution of the "Ross Anonymous" - notes on a Persian history of Shah IsmaciL I, A.H. Morton; Mirza, Mashiti and Juja Kabab - some cases of anomalous noun phrase word order in Persia, John R. Perry; Sadiq Chubak's world-view; class, state and revolution - the case of the Iranian revolution, 1978-1979, A. Reza Sheikholeslami.