Gifts of the Sultan: the arts of giving at the Islamic courts Linda Komaroff.
Publication details: [Los Angeles] : New Haven [Conn.] : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, 2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 335 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cmISBN: 9780300171105Other title: Arts of giving at the Islamic courtsSubject(s): Islamic art objects -- Exhibitions | Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Exhibitions | Islamic countries -- Social life and customs -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 709.176 LOC classification: NK720 | .G54 2011| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 paradis / Sheila Blair -- The enduring present: gifts in medieval Islam and Byzantium / Anthoy 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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