| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 494 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; 13 |
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SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; 13.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I. Politics. The prophet and the early caliphates -- 1. Did the prophet keep court? -- 2. The representation of the early Islamic Empire and its religion on coin imagery -- 3. Great estates and elite lifestyles in the Fertile Crescent from Byzantium and Sasanian to Islam -- 4. Court and courtiers: a preliminary investigation of Abbasid terminology in Muslim court cultures of the Middle Ages -- 5. Redressing injustice: "Ma'alim" jurisdictions at the Umayyad court of Cordoba (eighth-eleventh centuries CE) -- 6. Social elites at the Fatimid court -- 7. Courts, capitals and kingship: Delhi and its sultans in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries CE -- 8. Between Dihliz and Dar al-'adl. Forms of outdoor and indoor royal representation at the Mamluk court in Egypt -- 9. The Mongol court in Baghdad: the Brothers Juwayni between local court and central court: Muslim court cultures of early modernity -- 10. Monolithic or dynamic? The Safavid court and the subaltern in the late seventeenth century -- 11. Court culture and cosmology in the Mughal Empire : Humayun and the foundation of the Din-i ilahi -- 12. Taming the tribal native: court culture and politics in eighteenth century Shiraz -- 13. Global and local patterns of communication at the court of the Egyptian Khedives (1840-1880) -- Part II. Patronage. Networks of patronage: 14. The administration of welfare under the Mamluks -- 15. Favouritism at the Ottoman court in the eighteenth century sciences -- 16. Enacting the rule of Islam: on courtly patronage of religious scholars in medieval and early modern times -- 17. Ayyubid princes and their scholarly clients from the ancient sciences literature -- 18. Royal dishes: on the historical and literary anthropology of the Near and Middle East -- 19. The guidance of kingdoms: function of a mirror for princes at court and its representation of a court art and architecture -- 20. Art and architecture of the Artuqid courts -- 21. Court patronage and public space: Abu 'l-hasan ani al-Mulk and the art of persianizing the other in Qajar Iran -- 22. Theatres of power and piety: architecture and court culture in Awadh, India |
| Summary |
Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture has so far been overlooked. This book provides a comparative perspective on the history of courtly culture in Muslim societies from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, and presents an extensive collection of images of courtly life and architecture within the Muslim realm. The thematic methodology employed by the contributors underlines their interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to issues of p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Courts and courtiers.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Courts and courtiers
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Höfische Kultur
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Islam
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Hof -- Islam -- Geschichte Mittelalter.
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Islam -- Hof (Hofleben) -- Geschichte Mittelalter.
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Hof -- Islam -- Geschichte Neuzeit.
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Islam -- Hof (Hofleben) -- Geschichte Neuzeit.
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| SUBJECT |
Islamic Empire -- Court and courtiers
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| Subject |
Islamic Empire
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fuess, Albrecht
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Hartung, Jan-Peter
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| ISBN |
9780203844106 |
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0203844106 |
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9781136917813 |
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1136917810 |
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