Court cultures in the Muslim world seventh to nineteenth centuries

Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over the years. This book provides a comparative perspective on the history of courtly culture in Muslim societies from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, and presents a collec...

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Other Authors: Fuess, Albrecht (Editor), Hartung, Jan-Peter (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Oxon, UK Routledge 2010
Series:SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East volume 13
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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 -- 0. 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 
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