John Limbert , U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, has taught at Shiraz University.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Part One: History of Shiraz from Its Founding to the Conquest of Timur
1. History of Shiraz to the Mongol Conquest
2. Things Fall Apart: Shiraz under the Mongols and Their Successors
3. Shiraz as City-State: Abu Eshaq Inju and the Mozaffarids
Part Two: City of Roses and Nightingales
4. Peoples and Places
5. The City Administration
6. Shirazi Society: Patricians, Poets, and Scholars
7. A Very Special Place
Appendix: The First Families of Shiraz
Notes
Bibliography
Index

John Limbert , U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, has taught at Shiraz University.