Title: Court cultures in the Muslim world : seventh to nineteenth centuries /
Authors: Fuess, Albrecht.; Hartung, Jan-Peter.; Forschungszentrum Gotha für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien der Universität Erfurt.; Universität Erfurt.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Courts and courtiers Congresses.; Islamic civilization Congresses; Islamic architecture Congresses.; Islamic art Congresses.; Islamic Empire Court and courtiers Congresses.
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 --^