WITH THE EXCEPTION of three contributions to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, this volume reproduces all the published articles of Martin Hinds (1941-88), with some corrections and revisions based, in most cases, on his own corrected copies. For permission to reprint the material we should like to thank the American University of Beirut (Chaps. 4, 6), E. J. Brill (Chap. g), the British Institute of Persian Studies (Chap. 8), Cambridge University Press (Chaps. 1, 2), Oxford University Press (Chap. 3), Presses Universitaires de France (Chap. 7), and Riyad University Press (Chap. 5). We are also grateful to Laila Othman for preparing the index, to Theodora S. MacKay for her careful computer work, and to the Howard and Francis Keller Endowed Fund in History and the Friends of History Fund, both at the University of Washington, for financial support for preparation of the text and index.