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Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts / Linda Komaroff ; with contributions by Sheila Blair ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic art objects--Exhibitions.
- Islamic art objects.
- Gifts--Religious aspects--Islam--Exhibitions.
- Gifts.
- Manners and customs.
- Gifts--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Islamic countries--Social life and customs--Exhibitions.
- Islamic countries.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 335 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Arts of giving at the Islamic courts
- Place of Publication:
- [Los Angeles] : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- One leaf of "Interpreting gifts of the Sultan: the arts of giving at the Islamic courts" inserted.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0300171102
- 9780300171105
- OCLC:
- 670483596
- Publisher Number:
- 99954093370
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