Acknowledgements
The publication of this volume was made possible by the Iran Studies series at Brill. I am grateful to my editorial colleagues and to Maurits van den Boogert who first welcomed the idea and to Abdurraouf Oueslati, Mona Saif, Joanna El Mir, and Sanne Hadfy-Kovács whose guidance in different stages helped carry the project forward. I would also like to express my appreciation to Amina Inloes for her careful editorial assistance. Her commitment to maintaining editorial clarity was essential throughout the process. A further note of thanks goes to Mary Yoshinari for assisting with the translation of selected Persian interviews and commentaries included in the present collection, and to Hamoun Hayati for enhancing figures and maps. Many of the essays gathered here reflect longstanding interests and research paths shaped by conversations and collaborations over the years. Though too numerous to name individually here, I remain deeply indebted to colleagues, friends, and students whose questions and criticisms continually contributed to augmenting my thinking on the subjects addressed in these pages.