TY  - BOOK
AU  - Komaroff,Linda
ED  - Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
ED  - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
TI  - Gifts of the Sultan: the arts of giving at the Islamic courts
SN  - 9780300171105
AV  - NK720 .G54 2011
U1  - 709.176 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - [Los Angeles], New Haven [Conn.]
PB  - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yale University Press
KW  - Islamic art objects
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Gifts
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Islamic countries
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - 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
ER  -