Court cultures in the Muslim world : seventh to nineteenth centuries

Weitere Verfasser: Fuess, Albrecht.
Hartung, Jan-Peter.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; : New York :. Routledge, 2011.
Umfang/Format: xviii, 494 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; 13.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.