Sufi Lovers, Safavid Silks and Early Modern Identity

Acknowledgments, List of Illustrations, Notes on Transliteration, Introduction, Material Culture and Mysticism in the Persianate World, PART I, Chapter One, Silks, Signatures and Self-fashioning, Khamsa Narrative Silks in Scholarship, The Famous Naqshband: Unrivalled in the Art of Textile Design, Craftsmen and Consumers, Self-Fashioning in the Early Modern Persianate World, Chapter Two, Dressed as King, Lover and Beloved: Khusrau and Shirin, Lovers from Nizami's >Khamsa, The Romantic Tragedy of Nizami's 'Khusrau and Shirin', Khusrau and Shirin in Paintings and Safavid Silks, The Gaze and the Body: States of Dress and Undress, Chapter Three, Weaving Stories, Weaving Self: Layla and Majnun as Sufi Icons, The Mystical Love Story of Nizami's 'Layla and Majnun', Layla and Majnun in Paintings and Safavid silks, The >Khamsa of Amir Khusrau, Text and Textile in Sufi Poetry, PART II, Chapter Four, The Divine Cloak of Majesty: Material Culture in Sufi Practice, Garments as Gifts of Blessing, Piety and Power, Chivalry, Spirituality, and Materiality in Sufism, Khirqa: The Cloak of Spiritual Poverty, Khamsa Silk as >Khirqa? Figural Silks in Islamic Literary Sources, Enrobed: Khil'at