Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts
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Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Distributed by Yale University Press, c2011
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Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jun. 5-Sept. 5, 2011 and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Oct. 23, 2011-Jan. 15, 2012
Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-325) and index
Some copies have 1 sheet as a supplement
Contents of Works
- 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 / 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 exchange between the Russian court and its islamic counterparts, seventeenth to the nineteenth century / Edward Kasinec and Robert Davis