Introduction
Part I. Politics. The prophet and the early caliphates
1. Did the prophet 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 to Islam
4. Court and courtiers: a preliminary investigation of Abbasid terminology in Muslim court cultures of the Middle Ages
5. Redressing injustice: "Ma'alim" jurisdictions at the Umayyad court of Cordoba (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 Dihliz and Dar al-'adl. Forms of outdoor and indoor royal representation at the Mamluk court in Egypt
9. The Mongol court in Baghdad: the Brothers Juwayni 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 : Humayun and the foundation of the Din-i ilahi
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 medieval 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 of 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: Abu 'l-hasan ani 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.
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