Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986), The Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986), The Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986), The Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986), The Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986), The Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE
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Three horses galloping across a bare landscape. Painted in gouache on paper. Persia / Iran Mid 16th c
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Four Interlaced Horses, Persian, Safavid Period, early 17th century
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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?
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Miniature. “Four Women in a Palace Garden”, Mughal India, Bundi; mid-18th century
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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
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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
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Matrakçı Nasuh (1480 - 1564) - Ottoman miniature
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Matrakçı Nasuh
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Reciting Poetry in a Garden. Tile, Iran, prob Isfahan. 1st quarter 17th c. Stonepaste, polychrome glaze within black wax resist outlines
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Fritware tile panel, painted in blue, turquoise, and moss green under a transparent glaze. Turkey, Iznik; c. 1540
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Dervish’s staff, Steel. Persia/Iran. 18th c. Used by members of the Sufi brotherhood. Staff forms calligraphic ornament that spells out Ali
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Shirin Neshat, From the Series , ‘Our House is on Fire’, 2013. Digital C print and ink
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Miniature from a copy of the Ramayana. “Sita Shies Away from Hanuman, Believing He is Ravana in Disguise” Mughal India; 1594
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The Constellation of the Dragon / Draco, by al-Tinnin from 'The Mirror of Astronomy', Persia / Iran, ca. 1740
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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
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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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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
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Zodiac rug, probably from the Kerman region of Iran. Early 20th century
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Men of Allah (05), 2008, C-Print, 100 x 150 cm
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Map of the World made by Arab cartographer Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi in 1154 at court of Roger II of Sicily
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Piri Reis (d. 962 AH /1555 CE)
from Book of Navigation
Illuminated manuscript dedicated to Sultan Süleyman
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Piri Reis, Map of the Nile with various oases on each as far as Sīdī Maʿrūf from Book on Navigation
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Map of unmarked part of Egyptian coastline, 1525 CE
From 'Kitab-ı Bahriye' by Turkish mapmaker Piri Reis (1465-1555)
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Piri Reis, Map of the Island of Bozjah (Tenedos) Off the Coast of Anatolia
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1440 Arab Manuscript
Drawing of great horse/mare as seen in the sky
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Arabic manuscript, ca. 1766, Traité d’hippiatrie
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Jamil Molaeb
Arab Village II
2011
oil on canvas
130 by 90cm
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