Table of Contents

Preface A Note on Translation An Introduction to the Bihishti Zewar 1. Book One of the Bihishti Zewar Translator's Introduction to Book One The First Book of the Bihishti Zewar 2.Book Six of the Bihishti Zewar: A Discussion of Custom by Category Translator's Introduction to Book Six The Sixth Book of the Bihishti Zewar 3. Book Seven of the Bihishti Zewar: On Comportment and Character, Reward and Punishment Translator's Introduction to Book Seven The Seventh Book of the Bihishti Zewar 4. Book Eight of the Bihishti Zewar: Stories of Good Women Translator's Introduction to Book Eight The Eighth Book of the Bihishti Zewar 5. Book Ten of the Bihishti Zewar Translator's Introduction to Book Ten The Tenth Book of the Bihishti Zewar Notes Glossary Index

About the Author

Barbara Daly Metcalf is Dean, Division of Social Sciences, College of Letters and Science, and Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and the editor of Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe