List of Figures List of General Maps List of Contributors Note on Text List of Abbreviations 1. Arezou Azad, Edmund Herzig, Robert Hoyland, Philippe Marquis and Paul Wordsworth Introduction A. Between the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya: Balkh in its Geographical Context 2. Paul Wordsworth, Connecting the Early Islamic City: Balkh in Geographical Networks 3. Philippe Marquis (with P. Barthélémy, J. Bendezu-Sarmiento, E. de la Vaissière, N.
Engel, N. Rasouli, and Y. Ubelmann), The City of Balkh in the Context of the Oasis 4. Munira A. Salahetdinova, Towards a Historical Toponymy of the Balkh Region (translated by A. Qurboniev) B. Becoming Islamic: Balkh Before, During, and After the Arab-Islamic Conquest 5. Etienne de la Vaissière, From Bactra to Balkh via Naw Bahar 6.
Tasha Vorderstrasse, Imagining Balkh: The Chinese Perception of Central Asia during the Tang Dynasty 7. Robert Hoyland, Balkh in the Umayyad Period C. Shrines, Palaces, and Gardens: Landscapes of Balkh from the Caliphate to the Ghaznavids 8. Arezou Azad, How a City is Made Holy 9. Hugh Kennedy, Balkh as a Capital of the Ghaznavid Sultanate during the Reign of Sultan Mas?ud (1030-41 CE) 10. Domenico Ingenito, Sultan Mahmud's New Garden in Balkh: An Exercise in Literary Archaeology for the Study of Ghaznavid Ephemeral Architecture D. Archaeological Evidence for the Development of Balkh in the Early Islamic Period 11. Rachel Mairs, Alfred Foucher and the DAFA Excavations at Balkh (1924-25) 12.
Chahryar Adle, The Mosque Haji Piyada/Nuh Gunbadan, Balkh (Afghanistan): A Masterpiece of Fadl al-Barmaki Constructed in 178-9/794-5? (translated by Kathleen Hughes) 13. Pierre Siméon and Nader Rasouli, Study of the Mediaeval and Modern Islamic Ceramics from Excavations in Balkh (ninth-eighteenth centuries CE) 14. Stefan Heidemann, The Settlement Pattern of Tepe Zargaran in Balkh: Coin Finds in Relation to Local History Appendix 1: Drawings of ceramics from Balkh Appendix 2: Photographs of ceramics from Balkh Appendix 3: Fabrics of ceramics from Balkh Appendix 4: Catalogue and photographs of the coins of Balkh.