Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts, Linda Komaroff ; with contributions by Sheila Blair [and others]

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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]

Title remainder

the arts of giving at the Islamic courts

Statement of responsibility

Linda Komaroff ; with contributions by Sheila Blair [and others]

Instantiates

• Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts

Publication

• Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New Haven Conn., Yale University Press, 2011

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

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• 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
• The art of the art of giving at the Islamic courts
• Graphic documentation of gift exchange between the Russian court and its Islamic counterparts, seventeenth to the nineteenth century
• Edward Kasinec and Robert Davis
• 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

Control code

670483596

Dimensions

32 cm

Edition

1st ed.

Extent

335 pages

Isbn

9780300171105

Lccn

2010053435

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655

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color illustrations

Record ID

.b1549374x

System control number

(OCoLC)670483596