Court and cosmos : the great age of the Seljuqs / Sheila R. Canby, Deniz Beyazit, Martina Rugiadi, and A.C.S. Peacock ; with contributions by Alzahraa K. Ahmed [and 5 others]
"The powerful and culturally prolific Seljuqs--an empire whose reach extended from Central Asia to the eastern Mediterranean--dominated the Islamic world from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. The age of the Seljuqs was one that celebrated magnificence, in this world and the celestial rea...
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New York :
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The great age of the Seljuqs / A. C. S. Peacock
- Catalogue. Sultans of the east and west
- The courtly cycle
- Science, medicine, and technology
- Astrology, magic, and the world of beasts
- Religion and the literary life
- The funerary arts.