A.C.S. Peacock is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews, and holds a PhD in Oriental Studies from Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the author of Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation (2010), and is the co-editor of The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East (I.B.Tauris, 2012) and Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia (I.B.Tauris, 2013).D.G. Tor is Assistant Professor of Medieval Middle Eastern History at the University of Notre Dame, and holds a PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. She is the author of The Great Selkuq Sultanate and the Formation of Islamic Civilization: A Thematic History (forthcoming) and Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry and the 'Ayyar Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World (2007).
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A.C.S. Peacock is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has published widely on the history of the Islamic world, including the edited volume From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks and Southeast Asia, co-edited with Annabel Teh Gallop (2015). He is the author of Islamisation: Comparative Perspectives from History (2017), The Great Seljuk Empire (2015) and Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation (2010).
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1. Introduction. A.C.S. Peacock and D.G. Tor
2. The Fate of the Bukhar Khudas: A pre-Islamic dynasty in Islamic Mawaraannahr. Aleksandr Naymark
3. Across the Hindukush of the early Islamic period. Minoru Inaba
4. The early spread of Hanafism in Khurasan. Christopher Melchert
5. Female public figures in mediaeval Balkh. Arezou Azad
6. Zone of transition: The art of Northern Afghanistan in the 7th/8th - 10th century. Deborah Klimburg-Salter
7. Content versus context in Samanid epigraphic pottery. Robert Hillenbrand
8. The king and his kh?ssa in a Samanid work of advice: relations and responsibilities. Louise Marlow
9. Al-Tha'?lib?'s memorable Thim?r al-qul?b f? al-mu'?f wa-l-mans?b: A portrait of an eleventh-century cultural broker. Sarah Savant
10. A Khurasani city under Turkish rule: Herat between the Ghaznavids and Seljuqs. A.C. S. Peacock
11. The life and times of al-Kunduri. Carole Hillenbrand
11. Rural notables, local lords? Remarks on the ra'is in 12th-century eastern Iran. Jürgen Paul
12. The Ghurids in Khurasan. C. Edmund Bosworth