Gifts of the Sultan
Subtitle: the arts of giving at the Islamic courts
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Yale University Press; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780300171105
Table of contents: title: The art of the art of giving at the Islamic courts / Linda Komaroff; title: Gift giving in the Iranian tradition / Michael Morony; title: On giving to shrines : "generosity is a quality of the people of paradise" / Sheila Blair; title: The enduring present : gifts in medieval Islam and Byzantium / Anthony Cutler; title: Fatimid gifts / Jonathan Bloom; title: Gift exchange between Iran, Central Asia and China under the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644 / Ralph Kauz; title: Gifts for the Shah : an episode in Hapsburg-Safavid relations during the reigns of Philip III and ʻAbbas I / Marianna Shreve Simpson; title: Ottoman gift exchange : royal give and take / Tim Stanley; title: Imperial gifts at the court of Hindustan / Susan Stronge; title: Graphic documentation of gift exchange between the Russian court and its Islamic counterparts, seventeenth to the nineteenth century / Edward Kasinec and Robert Davis