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Introduction: Material culture and mysticism in the Persianate world
1. Silks, signatures and self-fashioning
2. Dressed as king, lover and beloved: Khusrau and Shirin
3. Weaving stories, weaving self: Layla and Majnun as Sufi icons
4. The divine cloak of majesty: material culture in Sufi practice
5. Mughal dress and spirituality: the age of Sufi kings
6. Safavid figural silks in diplomacy: rare textiles of novel design
Conclusion
Appendix A: List of Khamsa silks
Appendix B: Summary of 'Shirin and Khusrau' by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Appendix C: Summary of 'Majnun and Layla' by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Glossary of textile terms
Glossary of Persian and Arabic terms
List of historic figures.