MIR ALI SHIR 1
Introductory 1
Ⅰ．Iranians and Turks 5
Ⅱ．Herat and its importance 8
Ⅲ．Mīr ？Alī Shīr＇s origin and youth 15
Ⅳ．Mīr ？Alī Shīr and Sultān Husayn before thier first disagreement (1469-1487) 33
Ⅴ．Years of disgrace and diminished influence (1487-1494) 47
Ⅵ．Mīr ？Alī Shīr＇s last years (1494-1501) 56
Some historical dates 70
List of abbreviations 72
A HISTORY OF THE TURKMAN PEOPLE 73
The author＇s Foreword 75
Ⅰ．The pre-Muslim period 77
Ⅱ．The Oghuz (Turkmans) before the formation of the Seljuq empire 91
Ⅲ．From the end of the eleventh century to the Mongol invasion 109
Ⅳ．From the thirteenth to the sixteenth century 121
Ⅴ．From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century 146
List of abbreviations 170
Index to the volume 171