The publications of Roger M. Savory, 1960-2007/Eleazar Birnbaum.- The blinding pledge (mochalga): a Chinggisid practice in Safavid Iran/ Maria Subtelny.- The form, appearance, and decoration in the letters of the Safavid kings/ Iraj Afshar.- Am I my brother's keeper?: negotiating corporate sovereignty and divine absolutism in 16th-century Turco-Iranian politics/ Colin P. Mitchell.- Complex goals of the Ottomans, Persians and Muscovites in the Caucasus, 1578-1639 / Max Kortepeter.- Cultural currents in the Turco-Persian world of Safavid and post-Safavid times/ John Perry.- From the battlefield to the harem: did women's seclusion increase from early to late Safavid times?/ Rudi Matthee.- A Safavid bottle with matchlock hunt in the Royal Ontario Museum/ Lisa Golombek.- Reminiscences of the Maidan-i Shah/ Ali Asghar Bakhtiar.- The illustration of history in Safavid manuscript painting/ Charles Melville.- Coordinates in time and space: architectural chronograms in Safavid Iran/ Paul Losensky