The author and publishers wish to express their grateful thanks to copyright owners for the use of the illustrations listed below: Grégoire Frumkin, ‘Archaeology in Soviet Central Asia’, VII, Turkmenistan, Central Asian Review XIV, no 1, 1966 (for Fig. 23); L.I. Rempel, Arkhitekturnyi ornament Uzbekistana, Tashkent 1961 (Figs 8, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19); Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Museum für Indische Kunst, Berlin (plate 48); S. Flury, ‘Le decor epigraphique des monuments de Ghazna’, Syria, VI, 1925 (Fig. 4); L. Duprée, Afghanistan (Fig. 29); The International Merv Project, University of London (Fig. 22); L. Golombek, The Timurid Shrine at Gazur Gah (Fig. 32); State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (plate 72).
And for quotations: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd (for extracts from Tamburlaine the Conqueror by Hilda Hookham); George Luzac Ltd and the Gibb Memorial Trust (for extracts from Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion by V.V. Barthald); Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd (for extracts from Clavijo, Embassy to Tamerlane, translated by G. Le Strange).