Content :
Editor’s Note
Editor’s Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Hani Khafipour
Part I. The Religious Landscape
1. Converts, Apostates, and Polytheists
2. Heretics, Polytheists, and the Path of the Righteous
3. The Zealot, the Sufi, and the Quest for Spiritual Transcendence
Part II. Political Culture
4. Conceptions of Sovereignty: The Poet, the Scholar, and the Court Sufi
5. The King’s Deathbed: Coronation, Execution, and Fratricide
6. A Tale of Three Cities: Diplomacy and Conquest
Part III. Philosophical Inquiries
7. Philosophy as a Way of Life
8. Lettrists, Alchemists, and Astrologers: The Occult Sciences
Part IV. Literature and the Arts
9. Three Poets and the Three Literary Climes
10. Royal Patronage: A College, Poets, and the Making of an Imperial Secretary
11. Painters, Calligraphers, and Collectors
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index