Court Cultures in the Muslim World: Seventh to nineteenth centuries
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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of Contributors Introduction PART I Politics The Prophet and the early Caliphates 1 Did the Prophet Muhammad 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 Iran to Islam 4 Court and courtiers: A preliminary investigation of Abbasid terminology Muslim court cultures of the Middle Ages 5 Redressing injustice: Mazālim jurisdictions at the Umayyad court of Córdoba (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 dihlīz and dār al-‘adl: Forms of outdoor and indoor royal representation at the Mamluk court in Egypt 9 The Mongol court in Baghdad: The Juwaynī brothers 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: Humāyūn and the foundations of the dīn-i ilāhī 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 pre- 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 for 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: Abū ’l-Hasan Sanī' 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 Index
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