In the presence of power : court and performance in the pre-modern Middle East /

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Rulers' courts of the pre-modern Middle East have long been a staple of Western fantasies about the East. Yet in spite of the importance of the court as a symbol of the absolutist power of the "Orient," relatively few scholars have explored the cultural production of the courts of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pomerantz, Maurice A. (Editor ), Vitz, Evelyn Birge (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Performing arts > Islamic Empire.
Rites and ceremonies > Islamic Empire.
Oral tradition > Islamic Empire.
Arts du spectacle > Empire islamique.
Rites et cérémonies > Empire islamique.
Tradition orale > Empire islamique.
15.59 history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Courts and courtiers.
Oral tradition.
Performing arts.
Rites and ceremonies.
Aufführung
Höfische Kultur
Islamic Empire > Courts and courtiers.
Islamic Empire.
Naher Osten
Middle East.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Power performed. Performance and competition of kingship and court in Le voyage de Charlemagne a Jerusalem et a Constantinople: real and imaginary encounters between the medieval West and the Middle East / Evelyn Birge Vitz
  • Bloodthirsty emperors: performances of imperial punishment in Byzantine hagiography / Stavroula Constantinou
  • Mayd?n-i naqsh-i jih?n: the Safavid Isfahan public square as "a playing field" / Babak Rahimi
  • Persuasion. Performances of advice and admonition in the courts of Muslim rulers of the ninth-eleventh centuries / Louise Marlow
  • Conversation as performance: adab al-muadatha at the Abbasid court / Nadia Maria El Cheikh
  • Khalid ibn Safwan: an orator at the Umayyad and Abbasid courts / Jaakko Hømeen-Anttila
  • Entertainment. Performing court literature in medieval Byzantium: tales told in tents / Margaret Mullett
  • Error and the Abbasid performer: the "rare slips" of the fifth/eleventh-century / Ghars al-Ni?ma al-??b? / Maurice A. Pomerantz
  • Cross-gender "acting" and gender-bending rhetoric at a princely party: performing shadow plays in Mamluk Cairo / Li Guo
  • Delight. The court cuisine of medieval Cyprus: food as table theater / William Woys Weaver
  • Mystical poetics: courtly themes in early Sufi akhbar / Bilal Orfali
  • Chaste lovers, Umayyard rulers, and Abbasid writers / Jocelyn Sharlet
  • Epilogue.

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