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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. Edited By Albrecht Fuess And Jan-peter Hartung. Papers Presented At An International Conference Held By The Research Centre Gotha For Cultural And Social Studies (fge) And The Institute Of Islamic Studies Of Erfurt University, July 2-5, 2007, At Schloss Friedenstein In Gotha, Germany. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.