CONTENTS SPECIAL SECTION:COMMERCIAL,CONFESSIONAL, AND MILITARY ENCOUNTERS IN OTTOMAN-IRANIAN BORDERLANDS IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD EDITORIAL ALI GHEISSARI Editorial Foreword 289 GUEST EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION FARIBA ZARINEBAF Commercial, Confessional, and Military Encounters in the Ottoman–Iranian Borderlands in the Early Modern Period 291 ARTICLES FARIBA ZARINEBAF Azerbaijan between Two Empires: A Contested Borderland in the Early Modern Period (Sixteenth‒ Eighteenth Centuries) 299 FERENC CSIRKÉS A Messiah Untamed: Notes on the Philology of Shah Ismāʿīl’s Dīvān 339 SABRI ATEŞ Treaty of Zohab, 1639: Foundational Myth or Foundational Document? 397 VURAL GENÇ Rethinking Idris-i Bidlisi: An Iranian Bureaucrat and Historian between the Shah and the Sultan 425 Iranian Studies, Volume 52, Numbers 3–4, May–July 2019