Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University, founder of the Association for the Study of Persianate Society, and editor of the Journal of Persianate Studies.

• PrefaceIntroduction: A Quarter-Century of Persianate StudiesPart 1 Perso-Islamicate Civilizational Analysis1 Ardašir, Artaxerxes and Bahman2 India’s Contribution to Persianate Political Culture3 The Salience of Political Ethic in the Spread of Persianate Islam4 Evolution of the Persianate Polity and Its Transmission to Anatolia and India5 Perso-Indian Statecraft, Greek Political Science and the Muslim Idea of Government6 Persianate Islam and Its Regional Spread7 Memorialization of Kingship on the Peripheries of the Persianate World8 Developmental Patterns and Processes in Islamicate Civilization and the Impact of ModernizationPart 2 The State, Civil Society and the Law in the Persianate World9 The Law, Agency and Policy in Medieval Islamic Society: Development of the Institutions of Learning from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century10 Coffeehouses, Guilds and Oriental Despotism: Government and Civil Society in Late-17th–Early 18th Century Istanbul and Isfahan, and as Seen from Paris and London11 State Formation in Early Modern Muslim Empires: Common Origin and Divergent Paths12 Macrohistory of the Legal Transformations in Iran from the Reception of Turko-Mongolian Law to the Inception of Legal Modernization13 Political Ethic and Public Law in the Early Qajar Period14 Iran and the Imperial and Post-imperial Constellations in Central Asia15 Iran from the Shah’s Dictatorship to Khomeini’s demagogic theocracyIndex