Women in Iran from the rise of Islam to 1800 / edited by Guity Nashat and Lois Beck.

Women in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Iran / Guity Nashat -- Women during the transition from Sasanian to early Islamic times / Jamsheed K. Choksy -- Women and the urban religious elite in the pre-Mongol period / Richard W. Bulliet-- Eleventh-Century women : evidence from Bayhaqi's history / Julie Scott Meisami -- Women in the Seljuq period / Carole Hillenbrand -- Women in Timurid dynastic politics / Beatrice Forbes Manz -- Status, knowledge, and politics : women inSixteenth-Century Safavid Iran / Maria Szuppe -- Waters and women, maidens, andmight : the passage of royal authority in the Shahnama -- Taming the unruly king : Nizami's Shirin as lover and educator / Fatemeh Keshavarz -- Lifting the veil from the face of depiction : the representation of women in Persian painting /Layla S. Diba.