List of Figures and Maps List of Contributors Acknowledgments Note on Transcription and Style List of Abbreviations 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 Chapter One: Beyond Sayyid-hood: Genealogy and Narrative in the Nasab-nama of Malik Jahanshah and the Isma?ili Tradition of Badakhshan (Daniel Beben, Nazarbayev University) Chapter Two: Solomon's Shadow: The Politics and Poetics of Baloch Genealogical Traditions (Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi, Princeton University) Chapter Three: The Nasab-nama s of Zibak: Connectivity between Sacred Lineage and Conversion from Zibak to Hunza (Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey) Part II: Genealogy as Discourse and Praxis Chapter Four: The Samanid File: Embedding Genealogy in 16th-Century Bukhara (Florian Schwarz, Austrian Academy of Sciences) Chapter Five: Crossing the Arab/Persian Divide in the Gulf: Persianized Arabs, Arabized Persians, and the Politics of Persianness (James Onley, Qatar National Library) Part III: Sufism and Genealogy Chapter Six: An A?rari Genealogical Compilation Spanning the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries (Devin DeWeese, Indiana University) Chapter Seven: Where Genealogies of Texts Meet Genealogies of Saints: Concretizing Imami Sunni Sufism and Female Leadership in the Afghan Mujaddidi Lineage (Waleed Ziad, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Chapter Eight: Sacred Genealogies of Khwajas in the Ferghana Valley of the 19th Century (Yayoi Kawahara, University of Tokyo) Index.