Table of Contents

What does the history of Isfahan tell us new about the Iranian society during the Saljuq period? Dr Durand-Guédy, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Baghdad: a view from the edge on the Saljuq empire Dr Vanessa Van Renterghem, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco,Paris) & Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo, Beirut) Ismaili-Saljuq Relations: conflict and stalemate Dr Farhad Daftary, The Institute of Ismaili Studies & Encyclopaedia  Islamica Images into Words: metaphors as hallmarks of poetic individuality Dr Ali-Asghar Seyed-Ghorab, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (Leiden University) The Mirrors for Princes fabricated at the Saljuqi court: the Siyasat-name (Siyar al-muluk) by Nizam al-Mulk and the two-partite Nasihat al-muluk by al-Ghazali Dr Alexey A Khismatulin, The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St Petersburg Structures of power and influence in Seljuq Iran: the case of Nizam al-Mulk Professor Carole Hillenbrand FBA OBE, Professor Emerita of Islamic History, University of Edinburgh The Friday Mosque of Isfahan: the crowning achievement of Saljuq architecture? Professor Robert Hillenbrand, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art , University of Edinburgh “Saljuq” Ceramics? Professor Oliver Watson, I M Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford

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The book further explores key topics relating to the innovative Seljuq era, including: conflicted Sunni-Shi'a relations between the Sunni Seljuq empire and Ismaili Fatimid caliphate; art, culture and ceramics; and poetry and architecture.

About the Author

Edmund Herzig is Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies and a Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of" Iran and the World in the Safavid Age" (I.B.Tauris). Sarah Stewart is Lecturer in Zoroastrianism at SOAS, University of London, UK. Co-editor, with Vesta Curtis and Edmund Herzig, of several volumes in The Idea of Iran series, she is also editor of" The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination" (all published by I.B.Tauris).

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"This volume will serve as useful introduction to recent scholarship on the Seljuqs in Iran, Iraq and Central Asia"--Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean