List of genealogical tables and map
The land and peoples of Persia
Persia in the early Islamic centuries
Turkish rule in Persia: the Great Saljūq Sultanate at its height (431-485/1040-1092)
Institutions of Saljūq government: Steppe and Sedentary traditions
The later Saljūq Period and its aftermath: Ismāʻīlīs, Qara-Khitais and Khwārazm-Shāha (485-617/1092-1220)
The Mongols and their coming to Persia
The early Mongol rulers: Persia under infidel government (663-694/1265-1295)
The barbarians civilized? Ghazan and his successors (694-736/1295-1335)
Persia in the fifteenth century: the Timurids
Shāh Ismāʻīl I and the establishment of Shīʻism
Crisis, recovery and crisis (930-995/1524-1587)
The apogee of the Ṣafawid empire: the reign of Shāh ʻAbbās I (995-1038/1587-1629)
The second century of Ṣafawid rule
Persia in the eighteenth century
