Scholarly attention to Central Asia's history and cultural heritage remain little known even among specialists in Islamic studies, but it is true also for the sixteenth century, the immediate aftermath of the Timurid period; ...

Sometime in the last fifteen years of the twelfth century, the Shirvanshah Akhsatan made a request of the poet Nizami: Mīkhāham ke konūn be yād-e majnūn rānī sokhan cho dorr-e maknūn (48)1 I wish you now in Majnun’s ...