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. |
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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.
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Islamic art objects. |
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Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Exhibitions.
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Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Islam. |
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Islamic countries -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions.
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Islamic countries. |
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Manners and customs. |
Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Added Author |
Komaroff, Linda, 1953-
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Blair, Sheila.
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Added Title |
Arts of giving at the Islamic courts |
ISBN |
9780300171105 hardcover |
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0300171102 hardcover |
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