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  Title

  Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts

  Author

  Komaroff, Linda, 1953-  

  Publisher:

  Los Angeles County Museum of Art ;

  Pub date:

  2011.

  Pages:

  335 p. :

  ISBN:

  9780300171105

  Item info:

  3 copies available at MIA.
  

  • Holdings

    Holdings

    MIA	Copies	Material	Location
    HISTORY KOM	1	Book	Children's Collection
    NK720 .G54 2011	1	Book	Public Reading Room
    	Note: MIA Objects Number:MS 51 (Pg:11), MW.117 (Pg: 70), MW.473 (Pg:75), MW.282.2006 (Pg:82),AA.6 (Pg:44-45, Fig.37)
    	1	Book	Director's Office

• MARC Record

  Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts
  Komaroff, Linda, 1953-
  

  Fixed field data:

  101217s2011 caua cb 001 0 eng

  ISBN:

  9780300171105 (hardcover)

  ISBN:

  0300171102 (hardcover)

  LC Call Number:

  NK720 .G54 2011

  Dewey Decimal Classification Number:

  709.17/6707479493

  Title:

  Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts / Linda Komaroff.

  Portion of title:

  Arts of giving at the Islamic courts.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

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

  Physical description:

  335 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.

  General Note:

  MIA Objects Number:MS 51 (Pg:11), MW.117 (Pg: 70), MW.473 (Pg:75), MW.282.2006 (Pg:82),AA.6 (Pg:44-45, Fig.37)

  Bibliography note:

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Contents 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.

  Contents:

  The 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 paradis / Sheila Blair -- The enduring present: gifts in medieval Islam and Byzantium / Anthoy 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 Abbas 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 exchanges between the Russian court and its islamic counterparts, seventeenth to the nineteenth century / Edward Kasinec and Robert Davis.

  Held by:

  MIA

  Subject term:

  Islamic art objects--Exhibitions.

  Subject term:

  Gifts--Religious aspects--Islam--Exhibitions.

  Geographic term:

  Islamic countries--Social life and customs--Exhibitions.

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Komaroff, Linda, 1953-

  Added Entry-Corporate Name:

  Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

  Added Entry-Corporate Name:

  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.



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