List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on transliteration Glossary 1. Writing tribal history Part I. The Safavid State and the Origins of the Shahsevan: 2. 'Shahsevani': Safavid tribal policy and practice 3. Shahsevan traditions 4. Moghan and Ardabil in Safavid times Part II. The Rise of the Shahsevan Confederacy: 5. Badr Khan Sari-Khan-Beyli 6. Nazar 'Ali Khan Shahsevan of Ardabil 7. The Shahsevan tribal confederacy Part III. The Shahsevan Tribes in the Great Game: 8. The Russian wars and the loss of Moghan 9. The Shahsevan nomads in the mid-nineteenth century 10. Nomads and commissars in Moghan Part IV. The End of the Tribal Confederacy: 11. Pastures new: the effects of the frontier closure 12. The Shahsevan, the Constitution, the Great War and after 13. Settlement and detribalization 14. Conclusion: Shahsevan identity and history Appendices Bibliography Indexes.
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