Contents

1. Dedication
2. Epigraph
4. Prologue
5. PART I
   1. 1. “In a lightning flash from here to Vakhsh”
   2. 2. Samarkand
   3. 3. On the Silk Road
   4. 4. “Fire fell into the world”
   5. 5. Konya
   6. 6. “I kept hearing my own name”
6. PART II
   1. 7. “The face of the sun is Shams of Tabriz”
   2. 8. Separation
   3. 9. “I burned, I burned, I burned”
7. PART III
   1. 10. “Last year in a red cloak . . . this year in blue”
   2. 11. The Fall of Baghdad
   3. 12. “Sing, flute!”
   4. 13. “A nightingale flew away, then returned”
   5. 14. The Religion of Love
   6. 15. Wedding Night
8. Afterword
9. Acknowledgments
10. Note on Transliteration
11. Glossary of Names
12. Glossary of Terms
13. Maps
14. References
15. Notes
16. Index
17. About the Author
18. Also by Brad Gooch
19. Credits
20. Copyright
21. About the Publisher