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Gifts of the Sultan: the arts of giving at the Islamic courts

  • Alternate title

    Arts of giving at the Islamic courts

Contents

The art of the art of giving at the Islamic courts / Linda Komaroff -- Gift giving in the Iranian tradition / Michael Morony -- On giving to shrines: generosity is a quality of the people of paradise / Sheila Blair -- The enduring present: gifts in medieval Islam and Byzantium / Anthony Cutler -- Fatimid gifts / Jonathan Bloom -- Gift exchange between Iran, Central Asia, and China under the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644 / Ralph Kauz -- Gifts for the Shah: an episode in Hapsburg-Safavid relations during the reigns of Philip III and Abbas I / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- Ottoman gift exchange: royal give and take / Tim Stanley -- Imperial gifts at the court of Hindustan / Susan Stronge -- Graphic documentation of gift exchanges between the Russian court and its islamic counterparts, seventeenth to the nineteenth century / Edward Kasinec and Robert Davis.

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Publisher

  • Publication

    • [Los Angeles]: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    • New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, c2011

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  • Subject

  • Period

    700-1899

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Classification

  • ISBN

    • 9780300171105
    • 0300171102

Annotations / title notes

  • Notes

    Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 5-Sept. 5, 2011 and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Oct. 23, 2011-Jan. 15, 2012.

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