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In the Presence of Power : Court and Performance in the Pre-Modern Middle East /

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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Otros Autores: Vitz, Evelyn Birge (Editor ), Pomerantz, Maurice A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2017.
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505 0 |a 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 Homeen-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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