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Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts
- Title
- Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts / Linda Komaroff ; with contributions by Sheila Blair ... [et al.].
- Publication
- [Los Angeles] : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 335 p. : col. ill.; 32 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Arts of giving at the Islamic courts
- Subjects
- Note
- 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.
- One leaf of "Interpreting gifts of the Sultan: the arts of giving at the Islamic courts" inserted.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 ʻAbbas 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 exchange between the Russian court and its Islamic counterparts, seventeenth to the nineteenth century / Edward Kasinec and Robert Davis.
- Call Number
- JQG 12-231
- ISBN
- 9780300171105 (hardcover)
- 0300171102 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2010053435
- OCLC
- 670483596
- Title
- Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts / Linda Komaroff ; with contributions by Sheila Blair ... [et al.].
- Imprint
- [Los Angeles] : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Komaroff, Linda, 1953-Blair, Sheila.Los Angeles County Museum of Art.Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
- Research Call Number
- JQG 12-231