| ISBN |
0300171102 (hbk.) |
| 9780300171105 (hbk.) |
| Title |
Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts / [by] Linda Komoroff ; with contributions by Sheila Blair ... [et al.] |
| Publisher |
Los Angeles : : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011 |
| Physical desc. |
335 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm. |
| Note |
Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. |
| Catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5 June-5 September 2011, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 23 October-15 January 2012. |
| CBL illustrations: p. 14-15, fig. 4, cat. no. 92 (Is 1465); p. 30, fig. 24, cat. no. 184 (detail) (In 22.17v); p. 38-39, fig. 30, cat. no. 178 (In 03.53b & In 03.54a); p. 43, fig. 36, cat. no. 23 (In 03.49b); p. 65, fig. 60, cat. no. 91 (Is 1421); p. 243, fig. 231, cat. no. 98 (T 442). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-325) and index. |
| Contents |
The art of giving at the Islamic courts / Linda Komoroff -- Gift giving in the Iranian tradition / Michael Morony -- Ta'rikh-i Bayhaqi excerpt / translated by Wheeler Thackston -- On giving to shrines: 'generosity is a quality of the people of paradise' / Sheila Blair -- Waqf documents and architectural fittings and furnishings / Abdallah Kahil -- Offerings to the Ka'ba / Avinoam Shalem -- The enduring present: gifts in medieval Islam and Byzantium / Anthony Cutler -- Afterlife and circulation of objects / Avinoam Shalem -- Fatimid gifts / Jonathan Bloom -- Kitab al-Dhakha'ir excerpt / translated by Wheeler Thackston -- Performance of the object / Avinoam Shalem -- Gift exchange between Iran, Central Asia, and China under the Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 / Ralph Kauz -- Khataynama excerpt / translated by Ralph Kauz -- Ming shilu, Xiaozong excerpt / translated by Ralph Kauz -- Gifts for the Shah: an episode in Hapsburg-Safavid relations during the reigns of Philip III and 'Abbas I / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- Ambassadors and their gifts / Keelan Overton -- Gifted manuscripts from the Safavids to the Ottomans / Lale Uluç -- Ottoman gift exchange: royal give and take / Tim Stanley -- Gifts and the Topkapi Palace / Ilber Ortayli -- The Sultan and the Kaiser: gift exchange between Abdülhamid II and Wilhelm II / Aimée E. Froom -- Imperial gifts at the court of Hindustan / Susan Stronge -- Shah Tahmasp's edict to the governor of Khurasan / translated by Wheeler Thackston -- Abu'l-Fazl's effulgence over gifts from Shah Tahmasp / translated by Wheeler Thackston -- Graphic documentation of gift exchange between the Russian court and its Islamic counterparts, seventeenth to the nineteenth century / Edward Kasinec and Robert Davis -- From the Ardabil Shrine to the National Library of Russia / Olga V. Vasilyeva -- Diplomacy and gift giving at the court of Fath 'Ali Shah / Francesca Leoni. |
| Corporate name |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art -- Exhibitions |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston -- Exhibitions |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscripts -- Exhibitions |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 03 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 22 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1421 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1465 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 442 |
| Islamic art -- Exhibitions |
| Islamic art objects -- Exhibitions |
| Islamic decorative arts -- Exhibitions |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Exhibitions |
| Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Islam |
| Diplomatic gifts -- Islamic countries |
| Ceremonial exchange -- Islamic countries |
| Courts and courtiers in art |
| Islamic Empire -- Social life and customs |
| Islamic countries -- Social life and customs |
| Added name(s) |
Komaroff, Linda 1953- |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
