Court Cultures in the Muslim World

Abstract

Introduction Albrecht Fuess, Jan-Peter Hartung Part I: Politics. Prophet and the Early Caliphates 1. Did the Prophet Keep Court? Michael Cook 2. Representation of the Early Islamic Empire and its Religion on Coin Imagery Stefan Heidemann 3. Great Estates and Elite Lifestyles in the Fertile Crescent from Byzantium and Sasanian to Islam Hugh Kennedy 4. Court and Courtiers: A Preliminary Investigation of Abbasid Terminology Nadia Maria El Cheikh Muslim Court Cultures of the Middle Ages 5. Redressing Injustice: Ma'alim Jurisdictions at the Umayyad Court of Cordoba (Eighth-Eleventh Centuries CE) Christian Muller 6. Social Elites at the Fatimid Court Paul E. Walker 7. Courts, Capitals and Kingship: Delhi and its Sultans in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries CE Sunil Kumar 8. Between Dihliz and Dar al-'Adl. Forms of Outdoor and Indoor Royal Representation at the Mamluk Court in Egypt Albrecht Fuess 9. Mongol Court in Baghdad: Brothers Juwayni between Local Court and Central Court Hend Gilli-Elewy Muslim Court Cultures of Early Modernity 10. Monolithic or Dynamic? Safavid Court and the Subaltern in the Late Seventeenth Century Andrew Newman 11. Court Culture and Cosmology in the Mughal Empire : Humayun and the Foundation of the din-i ilahi Eva Orthmann 12. Taming the Tribal Native: Court Culture and Politics in Eighteenth Century Shiraz Christoph Werner 13. Global and Local Patterns of Communication at the Court of the Egyptian Khedives (1840-1880) Felix Konrad Part II: Patronage. Networks of Patronage 14. Administration of Welfare under the Mamluks Lucian Reinfandt 15. Favouritism at the Ottoman Court in the Eighteenth Century Henning Sievert Sciences 16. Enacting the Rule of Islam: On Courtly Patronage of Religious Scholars in Medieval and Early Modern Times Jan-Peter Hartung 17. Ayyubid Princes and their Scholarly Clients from the Ancient Sciences Sonja Brentjes Literature 18. Royal Dishes: On the Historical and Literary Anthropology of the Near and Middle East Stefan Leder 19. The Guidance of Kingdoms: Function of a Mirror for Princes at Court and its Representation of a Court Syrinx von Hees Art and Architecture 20. Art and Architecture of the Artuqid Courts Lorenz Korn 21. Court Patronage and Public Space: Abu 'l-asan ani al-Mulk and the Art of Persianizing the Other in Qajar Iran Abbas Amanat 22. Theatres of Power and Piety: Architecture and Court Culture in Awadh, India Hussein Keshani