Preface (Devin DeWeese) Introduction (Devin DeWeese) 1. Richard N. Frye: Bukhara Finale 2. Peter B. Golden: The Terminology of Slavery and Servitude in Medieval Turkic 3. Beatrice Forbes Manz: Family and Ruler in Timurid Historiography 4. Maria Eva Subtelny: The Making of Bukhara-yi Sharif: Scholars, Books, and Libraries in Medieval Bukhara (The Library of Khwaja Muammad Parsa) 5. Jo-Ann Gross: Naqshband i Appeals to the Herat Court: A Preliminary Study of Trade and Property Issues 6.

Elena A. Davidovich: The Monetary Reform of Muammad Shïb ani Khan in 913-914/1507-08 7. R. D. McChesney: Reconstructing Balkh: The Vaqfiya of 947/1540 8. David DeWeese: The Sayyid Ata'i Presence in Khwara zm during the 16 th and early 17 th Centuries 9. Jürgen Paul: On Some 16 th - and 17 th -Century Documents Concerning Nomads 10. Allen J.

Frank: Muslim Sacred History and the 1905 Revolution in a Sufi History of Astrakhan 11. G. E. Markov: The Social Structure of the Nomads of Asia and Africa 12. Bert G. Fragner: The Concept of Regionalism in Historical Research on Central Asia and Iran (A Macro-Historical Interpretation).