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In the Presence of Power - Court and Performance in the Pre-Modern Middle East (Paperback)
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In the Presence of Power - Court and Performance in the Pre-Modern Middle East (Paperback)
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Insights into power, spectacle, and performance in the courts of
Middle Eastern rulers In recent decades, scholars have produced
much new research on courtly life in medieval Europe, but studies
on imperial and royal courts across the Middle East have received
much less attention, particularly for courts before 1500AD. In the
Presence of Power, however, sheds new light on courtly life across
the region. This insightful, exploratory collection of essays
uncovers surprising commonalities across a broad swath of cultures.
The pre-modern period in this volume includes roughly seven
centuries, opening with the first dynasty of Islam, the Umayyads,
whose reign marked an important watershed for Late Antique culture,
and closing with the rule of the so-called "gunpowder" empires of
the Ottomans and Safavids over much of the Near East in the
sixteenth century. In between, this volume locates similarities
across the Western Medieval, Byzantine and Islamicate courtly
cultures, spanning a vast history and geography to demonstrate the
important cross-pollinations that occurred between their literary
and cultural legacies. This study does not presume the presence of
one shared courtly institution across time and space, but rather
seeks to understand the different ways in which contemporaries
experienced and spoke about these places of power and performance.
Adopting a very broad view of performances, In the Presence of
Power includes exuberant expressions of love in Arabic stories,
shadow plays in Mamluk Cairo, Byzantine storytelling, religious
food traditions in Christian Cyprus, advice, and political and
ethnographic performances of power.
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