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

Publication Info. [Los Angeles] : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  NK720 .G54 2011    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 335 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
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.
Contents 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 -- Enduring present : gifts in medieval Islam and Byzantium / Anthony 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 ʻAbbas 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Islamic art objects -- Exhibitions.
Islamic art objects.
Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Exhibitions.
Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Islamic countries -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions.
Islamic countries.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Added Author Komaroff, Linda, 1953-
Blair, Sheila.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Added Title Arts of giving at the Islamic courts
ISBN 9780300171105 hardcover
0300171102 hardcover