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.