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.
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.
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Gifts of the Sultan : the arts of giving at the Islamic courts. ISBN 9780300171105. Published by Yale University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
