Court Cultures in the Muslim World: Seventh to nineteenth centuries

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