Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts / Linda Komaroff.
Contributor(s): Komaroff, Linda
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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BookPublisher: [Los Angeles] : New Haven [Conn.] : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, 2011Edition: 1st ed.Description: 335 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.ISBN: 9780300171105 (hardcover); 0300171102 (hardcover).Other title: Arts of giving at the Islamic courts.Subject(s): Islamic art objects -- Exhibitions | Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Exhibitions | Islamic countries -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due |
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General Shelf | English | NK 720 G456 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available |
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| NA 2500 A512 Architecture, aesthetics, and the predicaments of theory / | NA 4670 M397 Masjid : | NA 4670 M397 Masjid : | NK 720 G456 Gifts of the Sultan : | NX 688 A4 N264 Islamic art and spirituality / | NX 688 A4 N264 Islamic art and spirituality / | NX 579 .A3 S549 A royal pleasure ground : |
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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