Samāǧaperformances in third/ninth-century Abbasid courts

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ID2821082
AutoresMassimiliano Borroni (0000-0003-2559-3917, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen82
Número2
Páginas289-302
Fecha de publicación2019-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x19000351
OpenAlexW2952817613
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas9

Literary sources from the Abbasid period record few descriptions of courtly masquerades and plays calledsamāǧa, which closely resemblesumozheplays from eighth-century China. On the basis of thesesamāǧadescriptions, the present paper argues that it is possible to understand howsamāǧaplays were carried out. Moreover, I argue thatsamāǧaperformances were a Central Asian custom imported to the Abbasid court with the establishment of the Turkish corps, and that its disappearance after the caliphate of al-Muʿtaḍid signals a substantial shift in the nature of the Turkish presence in the Abbasid heartland, marked by the establishment of themamlūksystem

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