Court Cultures in the Muslim World - 9781138788909

Taylor & Francis

Introduction Part 1: 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 Muslim Court Cultures of the Middle Ages 5. Redressing Injustice: \""Ma'\u0101lim\"" 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 Dihl\u012Bz and D\u0101r al-\u2018Adl. Forms of Outdoor and Indoor Royal Representation at the Mamluk Court in Egypt 9. The Mongol Court in Baghdad: The Brothers Juwayn\u012B 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 Sea