Practising Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78453-703-6 (ISBN)
Doris Behrens-Abouseif is the Nasser D. Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at SOAS, University of London. She previously taught at the American University in Cairo and the University of Munich. She is widely acknowledged as the pre-eminent scholar on the architecture of Cairo, and a leading specialist in the art and cultural history of the Middle East. She has written a number of books on Islamic art and architecture, including Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of Architecture and its Culture (I.B.Tauris), The Minarets of Cairo: Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the end of the Ottoman Period (I.B.Tauris), and Beauty in Arabic Culture and Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule .
List of Illustrations (with copyright credit)
Acknowledgement
Note to the Reader
Introduction
PART ONE: THE CULTURE OF GIFTS
I. The World of the Mamluks
II. Protocol and Codes of Gift Exchange
Diplomatic Hospitality and Safety
The Meaning of Diplomatic Gifts
Monetary Value of Gifts
Recycled, Used and Requested gifts
PART TWO: GIFTS IN GEO-POLITICAL CONTEXTS
III. The Red Sea and Indian Ocean Connection
Yemen
India
IV. Africa
Ethiopia
Nubia
The Maghrib
West Africa (Mali and Borno)
V) The Black Sea, Anatolia, Iran, Central Asia
The Golden Horde at the Black Sea
The Ilkhanids and the Jalayirids in Iran and Iraq
The Timurids in Central Asia
The Turkmens
Qara Qoyunlu
Aq Qoyunlu
Dhul Qadir
The Safavids
The Ottomans
VI Europe
Castile and Aragon
The Cyprus Connection
Venice
Florence
PART THREE: THE GIFTS
VII Tradition and Legacy
Traditional Diplomatic Gifts in the Middle-East and the Muslim World
The Fatimid and Ayyubid Legacies
VIII From and for the Mamluks
Gifts for the Mamluks
The Mamluk Assortment of Diplomatic Gifts
Spices and porcelain
Mamluks and Craftsmen
Giraffes, Elephants and other Animals
Balsam, Theriac and other Local Products
Religious Gifts
Textiles
Material Witnesses of Mamluk Diplomatic Textiles
The Knight’s Outfit
Material Witnesses of Mamluk Military and Equestrian Gifts
IX Gifts and Mamluk Identity
Export
Iconography of Mamluk Gifts
Conclusion
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.10.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 32 colour in 32pp plates |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 365 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78453-703-9 / 1784537039 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78453-703-6 / 9781784537036 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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