Acknowledgments List of Figures and Maps Contributors Note on Transcription and Style Introduction: The Culture and Construction of Genealogical Documentation in the Persianate World (Daniel Beben and Jo-Ann Gross) Part I: Genealogy, Translocality, and Narratives of Origin in Early Modern Persianate Societies 1. Commemorating Origin: Places, Lineages and Collectives across Early Modern Iran and India (Mana Kia, Columbia University, USA) 2. Genealogy as an Artifact of Islamization: Malik Jahanshah and the Pre-history of the Ismaili Da'wa in Badakhshan (Daniel Beben, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) 3. The Politics and Poetics of Genealogical Traditions: The Divergence of Baloch Genealogical Ideologies between the 16th and 18th-Centuries (Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi, Princeton University, USA) 4. Parsi Genealogy and Negotiated Sovereignty in Mughal Gujarat (Daniel Sheffield, Princeton University, USA) Part II: Genealogy as Discourse and Praxis 5. Esau, Oghuz Khan, and the Ottoman Mythical Imagination in the Subhatu'l Ahbar (Evrim Binbas, University of Bonn, Germany) 6. Archiving, Digitizing and Historicizing the Ismaili Nasab-namah Tradition of Badakhshan (Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey, USA) 7.

The Samanid File: Genealogy, Historiography, and Property in 16th-Century Bukhara (Florian Schwarz, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) 8. Eastern Arabia and the Persianate World: Family Archives and National Narratives (James Onley, Qatar National Library, Qatar) Part III: Sufism and Genealogy 9. An Ahrari Genealogy from 18th-Century India (Devin DeWeese, Indiana University, USA) 10. Vernacularizing the Cosmopolitan: Crafting Naqshbandi Genealogies in early 19th- Century Afghanistan (Waleed Ziad, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) 11: Nasab-nama and Tariqa in the 19th-Century Ferghana Valley (Yayoi Kawahara, Chuo University, Japan) Bibliography Index.