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Informationen zum Autor Albrecht Fuess is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. He specialises in the history of the Middle East (thirteenth to sixteenth centuries). Among his publications is Verbranntes Ufer: Auswirkungen mamlukischer Seepolitik auf Beirut und die syro-palästinensische Küste (1250-1517), Leiden: Brill 2001. Jan-Peter Hartung has taught at the universities of Erfurt, Bonn and Bochum and is currently Senior Lecturer for the Study of Islam at SOAS, University of London. He specialises in Indo-Muslim intellectual history. Among his publications is Viele Wege und ein Ziel: Leben und Wirken von Sayyid Abu l-Hasan 'Ali al-Hasani Nadwi (1914-1999), Wurzburg: Ergon 2004. Klappentext Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture has so far been overlooked. This book provides a comparative perspective on the history of courtly culture in Muslim societies from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, and presents an extensive collection of images of courtly life and architecture within the Muslim realm.The thematic methodology employed by the contributors underlines their interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to issues of politics and patronage from across the Islamic world stretching from Cordoba to India. Themes range from the religious legitimacy of Muslim rulers, terminologies for court culture in Oriental languages, Muslim concepts of space for royal representation, accessibility of rulers, the role of royal patronage for Muslim scholars and artists to the growing influence of European courts as role models from the eighteenth century onwards. Discussing specific terminologies for courts in Oriental languages and explaining them to the non specialist, chapters describe the specific features of Muslim courts and point towards future research areas. As such, it fills this important gap in the existing literature in the areas of Islamic history, religion, and Islam in particular. Zusammenfassung This book provides broad coverage of the history of Islamic courts from the time of Muhammed and the early Caliphates through to the 19th century. In particular it examines issues of politics and patronage from across the Islamic world stretching from Cordoba east to India. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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'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 2: Patronage. Networks of Patronage...
