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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 |
| Summary |
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 pre-modern Middle East. In the Presence of Power: Court and Performance in the Pre-Modern Middle East, edited by Maurice A. Pomerantz (New York University Abu Dhabi) and Evelyn Birge Vitz (New York University), offers twelve chapters that present a complex and nuanced image of rulers' courts as vital spaces of performance. Building on previous studies that have examined the court as an important sociopolitical space but moving in new directions, this volume explores literary works produced about and for performance in courts from the eighth to the sixteenth century. Contributions address topics such as delight, persuasion, and entertainment in Byzantine and Abbasid rulers' courts |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Performing arts -- Islamic Empire
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Rites and ceremonies -- Islamic Empire
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Oral tradition -- Islamic Empire
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15.59 history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Courts and courtiers
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Oral tradition
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Performing arts
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Rites and ceremonies
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Aufführung
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Höfische Kultur
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Islamic Empire -- Courts and courtiers
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Islamic Empire
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Naher Osten
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Middle East.
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Electronic book
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Pomerantz, Maurice A., editor
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Vitz, Evelyn Birge, editor
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| ISBN |
9781479884131 |
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1479884138 |
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