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A Scribe, Mughal India, ca. 1625

Hipsters forever
Miniature pasted on an album leaf. “Portrait of Fath Ali Shah Qajar” Persia / Iran 1811 CE

Allegory of worldly intoxication from an illustrated ms of the Divan of Hafez. Safavid period Iran, reign of Shah Tahmasp, ca. 1526-27

Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986), The Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE
(images are from a later European copy)
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986), The Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE
(images are from a later European copy)
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986), The Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE
(images are from a later European copy)
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986), The Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE
(images are from a later European copy)
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986), The Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE
(images are from a later European copy)
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986), The Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE
(images are from a later European copy)
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Three horses galloping across a bare landscape. Painted in gouache on paper. Persia / Iran Mid 16th c

Four Interlaced Horses, Persian, Safavid Period, early 17th century

Images from an Arabic manuscript featuring schematics for water powered systems, pulleys/gearing mechanisms. 16th and 19th century
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mages from an Arabic manuscript featuring schematics for water powered systems, pulleys/gearing mechanisms. 16th and 19th century
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Detail from The Day of Judgement, picturing five ‘incorporeal beings’ with nimbuses; Falnameh (Book of Divination), 1610-30 CE, India?

Miniature. “Four Women in a Palace Garden”, Mughal India, Bundi; mid-18th century

Piri Reis was a 16th century Ottoman Admiral famous for his maps & charts collected in his Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Navigation) early 16th C

Piri Reis, Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Navigation), early 16th C
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Piri Reis, Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Navigation), early 16th C
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Maps and Miniatures by Matrakçı Nasuh (1480 Bosnia-1564), Ottoman Polymath
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Maps and Miniatures by Matrakçı Nasuh (1480 Bosnia-1564), Ottoman Polymath
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Maps and Miniatures by Matrakçı Nasuh (1480 Bosnia-1564), Ottoman Polymath
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Aleppo, miniature painting by Nasuh Al-Matrakî, 16th c

Matrakçı Nasuh (1480 - 1564) - Ottoman miniature

Matrakçı Nasuh

Reciting Poetry in a Garden. Tile, Iran, prob Isfahan. 1st quarter 17th c. Stonepaste, polychrome glaze within black wax resist outlines

Fritware tile panel, painted in blue, turquoise, and moss green under a transparent glaze. Turkey, Iznik; c. 1540

Dervish’s staff, Steel. Persia/Iran. 18th c. Used by members of the Sufi brotherhood. Staff forms calligraphic ornament that spells out Ali

Shirin Neshat, From the Series , ‘Our House is on Fire’, 2013. Digital C print and ink

Miniature from a copy of the Ramayana. “Sita Shies Away from Hanuman, Believing He is Ravana in Disguise” Mughal India; 1594

The Constellation of the Dragon / Draco, by al-Tinnin from 'The Mirror of Astronomy', Persia / Iran, ca. 1740

Eclipse, from an Ottoman Treatise on Astronomy - ABU AL-FAZL HUBAYSH BIN IBRAHIM AL-MUNAJJIM AL-TIFLISI (Kitab Madkhal al-Nujum and Kitab Usul al-Malahim fi Ahkam al-Nujum, Istanbul, 27 July 1479) Bir Osmanlı Astronomi Risalesi, İbrahim Tiflisi, İstanbul, 1479

Tashrih-i Mansuri by Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Ibn Ilyās (منصور ابن محمد ابن احمد ابن يوسف ابن الياس) late 14th c, Shiraz
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Tashrih-i Mansuri by Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Ibn Ilyās (منصور ابن محمد ابن احمد ابن يوسف ابن الياس) late 14th c, Shiraz
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Tashrih-i Mansuri by Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Ibn Ilyās (منصور ابن محمد ابن احمد ابن يوسف ابن الياس) late 14th c, Shiraz
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Miniature. “A Palace Complex with Harem Gardens” Mughal India, Faizabad or Lucknow; c. 1765

Zodiac rug, probably from the Kerman region of Iran. Early 20th century

Ramin Haerizadeh, Men of Allah (05), 2008, C-Print, 100 x 150 cm

Map of the World made by Arab cartographer Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi in 1154 at court of Roger II of Sicily

Piri Reis (d. 962 AH /1555 CE)
from Book of Navigation
Illuminated manuscript dedicated to Sultan Süleyman

Piri Reis, Map of the Nile with various oases on each as far as Sīdī Maʿrūf from Book on Navigation

Map of unmarked part of Egyptian coastline, 1525 CE
From 'Kitab-ı Bahriye' by Turkish mapmaker Piri Reis (1465-1555)

Piri Reis, Map of the Island of Bozjah (Tenedos) Off the Coast of Anatolia