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.
