“what Ulysses is to the novel between the wars, and what The Waste Land is to poetry,
The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book”

– INDEX –

Introduction – The Monuments on the Road to Oxiana
Monument 1 – The Gunbad-i ‘Alaviyyan (and its inscription)
Monument 2 – Tughril Tower
Monument 3 – Gunbad-i ‘Ala al-Din
Monument 4 – The Friday Mosque in Varamin
Monument 5 – The Tomb of Uljaytu (or the Dome of Sultaniyya)
Monument 6 – The Blue Mosque in Tabriz
Monument 7 – Arg-i Tabriz
Monument 8 – Gunbad-i Qabud
Monument 9 – Rasatkhana (the Observatory of Maragha)
Monument 10 – Gunbad-i Surkh
Monument 11 – The Minaret of Semnan
Monument 12 – Gunbad-i Chihil Dukhtaran
Monument 13 – Gunbad-i Pir-i ‘Alamdar
Monument 14 – Tarik Khana Mosque
Monument 15 – The Minaret of  Khusrawgird
Monument 16 – Qadamgah Shrine
Monument 17 – Imam Reza Shrine
Monument 18 – Gawhar Shad Mosque (Mashhad)
Monument 19 – Gunbad-i Haruniyya
Monument 20 – The Musalla Complex
Monument 21 – Mosque of Gawhar Shad (Herat)
Monument 22 – Gawhar Shad Mausoleum
Monument 23 – Gawhar Shad Madrasa
Monument 24 – The Madrasa of Baiqara and the Stone of the Seven Pens
Monument 25 – Qal’a Ikhtiyar al-Din
Monument 26 – Ziyarat-i ‘Abd Allah Ansari
Monument 27 – Friday Mosque of Herat
Monument 28 – Imamzada Khvajah Rabi’
Monument 29 – Masjid-i Shah in Mashhad
Monument 39 – Musalla of Mashhad
Monument 40 – Mashhad-i Bayazid Bastami
Monument 41 – Gunbad-i Bastam
Monument 42 – Mashhad-i Fatima
Monument 43 – The Maidan-i Imam
Monument 44 – Friday Mosque of Isfahan
Monument 45 – The Monuments of Isfahan
Monument 46 – Friday Mosque of Shiraz
Monument 47 – Madrasa-i Khan
Monument 48 – Khatun Mausoleum
Monument 49 – Naqsh-i Rustam
Monument 50 – Persepolis
Monument 51 – Masjid-i Imam
Monument 52 – Shaykh Luftallah Mosque
Monument 53 – Friday Mosque of Yazd
Monument 54 – Vaqt-i Sa’at
Monument 55 – Shrine of the Twelve Imams
Monument 56 – Jabal-i Sang
Monument 57 – Friday Mosque of Kerman
Monument 58 – Ganj-i Ali Khan Complex
Monument 59 – Qubba-i Sabz
Monument 60 – Nur al-Din Ni’matullah Vali Shrine
Monument 61 – Friday Mosque of Na’in
Monument 62 – Friday Mosque of Ardistan
Monument 63 – Chelebi Oghlu Tomb Tower
Monument 64 – Mullah Hassan-i Kashan Shrine
Monument 65 – Friday Mosque of Qazvin
Monument 66 – Gunbad-i Qabus
Monument 67 – Mil-i Sharq Radkan
Monument 68 – Arslan Jadhib Mausoleum and Minaret
Monument 69 – Turbat-i Sheikh Ahmad Jami Shrine
Monument 70 – Masjid-i Mawlana of Tayabad
Monument 71 – Rowze-i Sharif
Monument 72 – Termez
Monument 73 – Shrine of Khoja Abu Nasr Parsa
Monument 74 – Shrine of Khoja Aghacha
Monument 75 – The Towers of Victory
Monument 76 – The Minaret of Damghan
Monument 77 – The Tomb of Sultan Mahmud
Monument 78 – The Qutb Minar
Epilogue – The end of a long journey

– EXTRAS –

MAP OF THE MONUMENTS (on Maphub)
1 – Robert Byron: a short life, a big personality
2 – The story of the book: The Road to Oxiana
3 – A description of the Buddhas of Bamiyan by Robert Byron
4 – Forgotten monuments Byron revives
5 – “One thinks of…” Robert Byron describing monuments