Preface List of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on Dates and Transliteration List of Contributors Introduction Chapter 1. Courts and Court Culture in the Proto-urban and Urban Developments among the Pre-Chinggisid Turkic Peoples. Chapter 2. Sedentary Rulers on the Move: The Travels of the Early Ghaznavid Sultans. Chapter 3. From Tents to City: The Royal Court of the Western Qarakhanids between Bukhara and Samarqand. Chapter 4. The Tents of the Saljuqs. Chapter 5. Court and Nomadic Life in Saljuq Anatolia. Chapter 6. Seasonal Capitals with Permanent Buildings under the Great Qans and the Ilkhans. Chapter 7. Rulers and City Life in Mongol Central Asia (1220-1370). Chapter 8. Dynastic Mausolea of the Timurids and Their Ornaments: Propaganda and Memorial. Chapter 9. The Itineraries of Shahrukh b. Timur (1405-47). Chapter 10. A Landscape of Fortresses: Central Anatolia in Astarabadi's Bazm wa razm. Chapter 11. The Castle and the Country: Spatial Orientations of Qipchaq Mamluk Rule. Chapter 12. Between Tehran and Sultaniyya. Early Qajar Rulers and their Itineraries. Index
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