Islamic countries--Social life and customs--Exhibitions
Gifts--Religious aspects--Islam--Exhibitions
The art of the art of giving at the Islamic courts / Linda Komaroff -- Gift giving in the Iranian tradition / Michael Morony -- On giving to shrines: generosity is a quality of the people of paradise / Sheila Blair -- The enduring present: gifts in medieval Islam and Byzantium / Anthony Cutler -- Fatimid gifts / Jonathan Bloom -- Gift exchange between Iran, Central Asia, and China under the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644 / Ralph Kauz -- Gifts for the Shah: an episode in Hapsburg-Safavid relations during the reigns of Philip III and Abbas I / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- Ottoman gift exchange: royal give and take / Tim Stanley -- Imperial gifts at the court of Hindustan / Susan Stronge -- Graphic documentation of gift exchanges between the Russian court and its islamic counterparts, seventeenth to the nineteenth century / Edward Kasinec and Robert Davis.