Acknowledgments

Note to the Reader

List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction to Iranian Mobilities and Persianate Mediations in the Deccan / Keelan Overton

2. Iran and the Doors to the Deccan, ca. 1400-1650: Some Aspects / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam

3. Excerpt on Yusuf Beg 'Adil Khan, from Rafi' al-Din Shirazi's Tazkirat al-Muluk / Translated by Wheeler Thackston

4. Ghariban in the Deccan: Migration, Elite Mobility, and the Making and Unmaking of an Early Modern State / Roy S. Fischel

5. Dynastic Self-Fashioning and the Arts of the Pen: Sufi and Calligraphy Networks between Fifteenth-Century Shiraz and Bidar / Peyvand Firouzeh

6. From Iran to the Deccan: Architectural Transmission and the Madrasa of Mahmud Gavan at Bidar / Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom

7. Qur'an Manuscript No. 106 Copied by 'Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni al-Shirazi and Endowed to the Shrine of Imam Riza by Ibrahim Qutb Shah / Maryam Habibi, translated by Arash Khazeni

8. Vaqfnama of Ibrahim Qutb Shah in the 'Abd al-Qadir Qur'an Manuscript Endowed to the Shrine of Imam Riza / Translated by Jake Benson

9. Faith and Fate: The Khalili Falnama and Shi'i Identity in Golconda / Rachel Parikh

10. Indo-Persian Histories from the Object Out: The St Andrews Qur'an Manuscript between Timurid, Safavid, Mughal, and Deccani Worlds / Keelan Overton and Kristine Rose-Beers (with contributions by Bruce Wannell)

11. The Qit'at-i Khushkhatt Album: Authenticity and Provenance / Jake Benson

12. Khalilullah "Padishah of the Pen": Royal Scribe and Ambassador of Shah 'Abbas and Ibrahim 'Adil Shah II / Hamidreza Ghelichkhani, translated by Kimia Maleki and Jake Benson

13. Forging a Canon of Dakhni Literature: Translations and Retellings from Persian / Sunil Sharma

14. On Heroes and History: Responding to the Shahnama in the Deccan, 1500-1800 / Subah Dayal

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