Images from an Arabic manuscript featuring schematics for water powered systems, pulleys/gearing mechanisms. 16th and 19th century
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Door of the Mosque of Barquq, Cairo. Photograph by David Lewis
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Dish of bidri metal, inlaid with silver and brass, Mughal India, Deccan; 2nd half of 17th century
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Flower Painting, artist unknown, Mughal India, ca. 1651-1750
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Miniature pasted on an album leaf. “Portrait of Fath Ali Shah Qajar” Persia / Iran; 1226 H / 1811 CE
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Ustad Mansur - Chameleon, Mughal India, 17th century
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Turban cover, silk embroidery on linen. Turkey, second half 16th 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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Group Of Veiled Women, North Africa, c. 1930, photographer unknown
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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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Antique Persian Tabriz Carpet, probably late 19th century
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