https://thicketandthorp.com/2024/07/21/homecoming/2024-07-22T03:51:31+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2024/07/15/a-going-to-water/2024-07-15T14:39:28+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2024/01/31/the-stylite-addresses-the-world/2024-01-31T16:18:44+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2024/01/16/many-worlds-in-one-manuscript-a-close-reading-of-ms-yah-ar-765-part-iii/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/national_library_of_israel_jerusalem_israel_ms._yah._ar._765.pdf_page_15.pngNational_Library_of_Israel_Jerusalem_Israel_Ms._Yah._Ar._765.pdf_page_152024-01-24T10:39:55+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2023/12/22/many-worlds-in-one-manuscript-a-close-reading-of-ms-yah-ar-765-part-ii/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/national_library_of_israel_jerusalem_israel_ms._yah._ar._765.pdf_page_9-1.jpgNational_Library_of_Israel_Jerusalem_Israel_Ms._Yah._Ar._765.pdf_page_9https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/national_library_of_israel_jerusalem_israel_ms._yah._ar._765.pdf_page_9-2262730133-e1703281716257.jpgNational_Library_of_Israel_Jerusalem_Israel_Ms._Yah._Ar._765.pdf_page_9https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/national_library_of_israel_jerusalem_israel_ms._yah._ar._765.pdf_page_9.pngNational_Library_of_Israel_Jerusalem_Israel_Ms._Yah._Ar._765.pdf_page_92023-12-22T21:57:07+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2023/12/15/new-echota/2023-12-15T16:38:55+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2023/12/14/taphonomy/2023-12-15T04:46:19+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2023/12/05/many-worlds-in-one-manuscript-a-close-reading-of-ms-yah-ar-765-part-i/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-1.pngimage-1https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image.pngimagehttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/national_library_of_israel_jerusalem_israel_ms._yah._ar._765.pdf_page_8.pngNational_Library_of_Israel_Jerusalem_Israel_Ms._Yah._Ar._765.pdf_page_8https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/national_library_of_israel_jerusalem_israel_ms._yah._ar._765.pdf_page_7.pngNational_Library_of_Israel_Jerusalem_Israel_Ms._Yah._Ar._765.pdf_page_72024-02-19T11:50:13+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2023/10/30/gihli-digalenvhida/2023-10-30T14:52:37+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2023/10/23/the-seven-sleepers-in-islamicate-textuality-complex-crossings/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fireplace-2535828523-e1698077278150.jpgfireplacehttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/dp299947-2640765598-e1698076956142.jpgDP299947https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/25_00b96_default.jpg25_00b96_default2023-10-29T18:20:18+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2023/06/12/burned-horizons/2023-06-12T18:32:49+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2023/05/19/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-early-modern-north-african-scholar-farmer/2023-05-19T16:56:04+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2023/04/24/ibn-zakri-has-to-get-his-mothers-permission/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1916.1361_print-2701726177-e1682349459812.jpg1916.1361_printDetail of a woven curtain from Tunisia, 17th or 18th century, postdating the time of Ibn Zakrī but perhaps in the vein of the sort of work he might have undertaken as a weaver in 15th century Tlemcen (Cleveland Museum of Art 1916.1361)2023-04-24T15:26:26+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2023/04/21/shaykh-%e1%b9%a3afi-al-dins-gifts-for-eid/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/akm264.f376r_hero-3443187714-e1682099335743.jpgAKM264.f376r_HEROA delivery of food- perhaps pilaf?- in a detail from an illustration for another story from the Ṣafvāt al-ṣafā (AKM264 (fol.376r))https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lepisode_du_sheikh_de_sana-an_.haider_me-zoub_btv1b8415000w_71.jpgL'épisode_du_sheïkh_de_Sana an_[...]Haïder_Me zoub_btv1b8415000w_71In this detail from an early 16th century Safavid miniature, a depiction of a market stall selling bread, such as Akhī Shādī would have been preparing for the 'Eid festivities (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Supplément turc 978)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/image.pngimage2023-04-21T17:56:15+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2023/04/08/meditations-at-the-k-pg-boundary-wahalak-mississippi/2023-04-08T04:51:10+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2023/01/26/for-the-vultures-of-chattanooga-valley/2023-01-26T16:11:22+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2022/12/20/of-a-lion-dog-shay%e1%b9%adan-and-snake-sidi-al-%e1%b8%a5asan-abirkan-of-tlemcen/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2008bv6258.jpg2008BV6258A depiction by S. Fabrizi, in 1881, of worshipers- of evident African descent, like Shaykh al-Ḥasan- in the mosque of one of the 'foundational' saints of Tlemcen, Sīdī Abū Madyan, a saint who is described as helping Shaykh al-Ḥasan defend the city against an invader. (V&A SD.374)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2008bu0720-3512003694-e1671561599507.jpg2008BU0720The walls of the village of Manṣūra outside of Tlemcen, 1870, by Sir John Baptist Joseph, 12th Baron Dormer (V&A SD.340)2022-12-26T11:31:14+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2022/09/07/the-life-of-st-sozon-a-retelling/2022-09-07T14:47:24+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2022/07/15/the-poor-woman-of-azzajn-and-the-shaykh/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/18773439-e1657851863830.jpg18773439Folio from a copy of al-Jazūlī's Dalā'il al-khayrāt, 16th century Maghrib (Harvard Art Museum 1984.464.9)2022-07-15T14:32:14+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2022/06/15/discovering-the-nature-of-true-alchemy/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/a7v772a-e1655327122794.jpga7v772aAn illustration from a text on aspects of literal alchemy (and quite a few other topics), Kitāb al-Burhān fī asrār ‘ilm al-mīzān, copied in the Maghrib in the mid to late 19th century (National Library of Medicine MS A 7) 2022-06-15T21:14:20+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2022/05/19/fifteenth-century-text-searching-with-a%e1%b8%a5mad-al-wansharisi/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/abd_all-h_ibn_y-suf_ibn_..._btv1b8530349d_30-e1652983530238.jpegAbd_All h_ibn_Y suf_Ibn_[...]_btv1b8530349d_30Other Maghribī scholarly textual practices on display: a page with marginalia from the grammatical text Awḍāḥ al-masālik fī sharḥ Alfiyyat Ibn Mālik, copied c. 1700; note the prominently sized words used in dividing the text and making more conventional forms of browsing/searching easier. (BnF, Département des manuscrits, Arabe 7323) 2022-05-19T20:16:00+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2022/05/05/a-basket-of-halwa-sent-by-god/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/dt262290-e1651760967840.jpgDT262290https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/wb-93.26.15.jpgwb-93.26.15Window with colored panes (not really visible in this view) from a house in 17th century Ottoman Damascus (Met. 93.26.15) 2022-05-05T14:33:10+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2022/04/11/a-holy-historian-and-a-saintly-blacksmith/2022-04-11T18:43:58+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2022/02/01/shaykh-%e1%b9%a3afi-al-din-and-the-stuff-of-miracles/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2017ka1724.jpg2017KA1724A late Safavid textile panel with sumptuous embroidery, indicative of the beauty and value textiles could carry in premodern worlds. V&A 794-1899.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/dp328898-e1642025662520.jpgDP328898Carpet, 16th century Islamic, Safavid period (1501–1722) Silk (warp and weft), wool (pile), metal wrapped thread; asymmetricaly knotted thread, brocaded; Rug: L. 63 1/2 in. (161.3 cm) W. 43 1/4 in. (109.9 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917 (17.120.124) http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/4469512022-03-21T17:46:06+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/history-308b-a-history-of-islam-and-islamic-societies-1500-to-the-present/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/4-1-14-marseille-troupes-secc81necc81galaises-un-soldat-et-une-femme-secc81necc81galais-.jpeg4-1-14, Marseille, troupes sénégalaises [un soldat et une femme sénégalais]A Senegalese soldier and his wife and child in Marseilles, at the beginning of the First World War; millions of Muslim men- and women and children in some cases- would travel around the world during the war, often spending time in the colonial metropoles. Travel, whether in war or peacetime, would profoundly shape emergent Islamic modernity in the decades to come.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ayatollah_mirza_hussain_naini.jpgAyatollah_Mirza_Hussain_NainiMuḥammad Ḥusayn Nā'inī, photograph from an unknown source; note the use of a book and prayer-beads in this photographic portrait which reproduces the style of Safavid painted portraits in many ways.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/portrait-of-nacc82sir-od-din-shah-r.-1848e280931896-.jpegPortrait of Nâsir-od-din Shah (r. 1848–1896)A portrait of Qajar Iranian ruler Nāṣir ad-Dīn Shah (r. 1848–1896), combining traditional Persian elements as well as the shah's styling of contemporary fashion.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/d2gakzrwkaawwhg.jpgD2GakzrWkAAWwhGOttoman troops on the Palestinian Front bing assisted by Mevlevi medics- note the tall hats typical of the ṭarīqa, as well as the Red Crescent armbands.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/0e7948b5e111e8d726895b78df041a348363d945.jpg0e7948b5e111e8d726895b78df041a348363d945A flag made for a Mahdiyya unit in Sudan; the base fabric was most likely a tablecloth or some similar object made in the Ottoman lands, with the standard phrases of Mahdiyya flags added on top.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/6a00d8341c464853ef01b8d167de17970c.jpg6a00d8341c464853ef01b8d167de17970cEAP387/1/3/10 First page of the poem entitled "Yimre yeyraa'be" by Moodibbo Raaji , a friend (and later also critic) of Usman dan Fodio.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2013gt1606.jpg2013GT1606Another portrait of Nadir Shah, by the North Indian artist Muhammad Panah, done shortly after Nadir Shah's campaign against the remnants of the Mughal Empire. V&A IM.237-1921.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/nadir-shah-va.jpgNadir Shah V&Ahttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/w547_000018_sap.jpgW547_000018_saphttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/k9.2_-19-11974_-kar-w.jpgK9.2_-19-11974_-Kar-wA gold-flecked bronze vessel with an Arabic inscription, produced somewhere in China during the 17th century, combining an Islamicate inscription with traditional Chinese motifis (David Collection Inv. no. 19/1974)2021-11-16T21:23:29+00:00weekly0.6https://thicketandthorp.com/2021/11/10/sharing-a-pipe-with-the-shaykh/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/abu-daood-shaikh-of-the-coptic-quarter-in-cairo.jpgAbu Daood, Shaikh of the Coptic Quarter, in CairoA watercolor portrait, by the European artist Carl Haag, of a shaykh in Cairo, one Abū Dawūd; not a sufi shaykh alas (rather a shaykh in charge of an urban quarter, the Coptic one in this case), but displaying both 19th century dress and more importantly for the story below the sizeable nature of tobacco pipes! Painted in 1886 but based on observations from Haag's 1858-9 visit to Cairo (V&A SD.462)2024-02-20T13:33:39+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/about/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cig_img002.jpgCIG_IMG002https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/23916534_690434912621_7893153227743580335_o.jpg23916534_690434912621_7893153227743580335_oOur little familyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/img_4817-e1496407544980.jpgIMG_4817Our little family on a hike in Shenandoah National Park, May 2017.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/img_2131.jpgIMG_2131https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/img_2150a.jpgimg_2150ahttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/img_12421.jpgimg_124212021-08-31T15:38:45+00:00weekly0.6https://thicketandthorp.com/2021/08/29/two-days-at-the-end-of-summer/2021-08-29T20:09:56+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2021/08/17/shaykh-mu%e1%b8%a5ammad-al-jisr-and-the-snake-in-the-wall/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/egyptian-characters-etc.-snake-charmer-cairo-2-e1629216308336.jpgEgyptian characters, etc. Snake charmer, Cairo 2A snake charmer at work in early 20th century Cairo, photographed by a photographer from the American Colony in Jerusalem; this is the sort of performer, increasingly associated with 'the Orient' in the 19th century, that Ḥusayn al-Jisr wished to differentiate his father from (Library of Congress LC-M32- 994 [P&P])2021-08-17T20:13:34+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2021/08/02/nocturne-first-of-august/2021-08-09T15:01:41+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2021/08/06/%e1%b9%adaha-al-kurdi-meets-his-spiritual-master/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/rihlah__ibn_yahya_al-cabbiraqi_sahih_al-din_abu_al-fayd_muhammad_t_uz1kbeq-e1628264315855.pngRihlah__Ibn_Yahya_al-ʻIraqi_Sahih_al-Din_Abu_al-Fayd_Muhammad_T_UZ1kBEQA page from a holograph copy of the Riḥla, Yale University Library Landberg MSS 2202021-08-09T15:01:15+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2021/08/09/a-memento-mori-for-the-anthropocene/2021-08-09T14:43:45+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2021/05/18/peace-to-you-o-holy-one-of-god-o-saint-musa-who-seized-the-kingdom-of-heaven-by-force/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/christian-arabic-61-coptic-2-e1621312588390.jpgChristian Arabic 61 - Coptic 2https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/al-qiddicc84s-anbacc84-mucc84sacc81-al-aswad-e1621310998187.jpgal-Qiddīs Anbā Mūsá al-AswadAn icon of Saint Mūsā the Black, fronting the service translated below, from University of Pennsylvania CAJS Rar Ms 181.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/al-qiddicc84s-anbacc84-mucc84sacc81-al-aswad-open-e1621311413689.jpgal-Qiddīs Anbā Mūsá al-Aswad openFig. 2. The opening page of this liturgical composition, displaying some of the orthographical peculiarities as well as the signs of intense usage over the last two hundred plus years.2021-05-18T14:08:45+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2021/05/13/a-palestinian-saint-of-the-early-ottoman-era/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/img_5190-e1620937722756.jpgIMG_5190The Dome of the Rock, which served Shaykh Dajānī- like generations of Palestinians before and since- as a frequent oratory and not just destination of pilgrimage. Photo by the author, 2017. 2021-05-13T20:34:35+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2021/04/28/encountering-and-using-the-written-word-in-early-modern-cairo/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/mdp.39015079105097-seq_4-e1619020637553.jpgmdp.39015079105097-seq_4The opening page from a 17th century Ottoman copy of the medieval Qur'an tafsīr of al-Baghawī (d. c. 1117), with owner marks visible in the right margin (University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 4)2021-04-28T15:22:54+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2021/03/31/sidi-a%e1%b8%a5mad-takes-minimalism-to-a-whole-other-level/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/7459b6b2-1360-4326-af8d-9567dc947558.jpeg7459B6B2-1360-4326-AF8D-9567DC947558Interior view of the Miṣbāḥiyya Madrasa, taken by me in 2008; the madrasa- the saint in the below biographical compilation entry's 'home base'- was built in 1346 and could accommodate some 140 residents.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/7459b6b2-1360-4326-af8d-9567dc947558_1_105_c-1.jpeg7459B6B2-1360-4326-AF8D-9567DC947558_1_105_chttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/7459b6b2-1360-4326-af8d-9567dc947558_1_105_c.jpeg7459B6B2-1360-4326-AF8D-9567DC947558_1_105_c2021-03-31T19:38:26+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2021/03/19/lenten-thinking-out-loud-i-scripture-and-the-resurrection-in-light-of-the-deep-history-of-life-on-earth/2021-04-15T00:43:07+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2021/03/03/badr-al-din-al-ghazzis-guide-to-eating-etiquette/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/w666_000183_sap-e1614790886250.jpgW666_000183_sapWhile hailing from a century and a half after al-Ghazzī, this depiction of men at table is fairly close to the sorts of settings envisioned in al-Ghazzī's manual: the table is low to the ground, the diners sit on the ground, with large dishes of food which they share. A tablecloth might be present in some cases, though here it is not. From a 1721 copy of the Hamse of the seventeenth century Ottoman poet ʿAṭāʾī (Walters W.666). 2021-03-03T17:31:09+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2021/02/10/thinking-out-loud-i-history-technology-anthropocene-and-ways-forward/2021-02-10T19:51:14+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/12/18/sidi-shaqruns-loathing-of-melons-is-cured/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/1916.830_print-e1608322572479.jpg1916.830_printDetail of an 18th century ceremonial scarf with floral and vegetal patterns from Tétouan (Cleveland Museum of Art 1916.830)2020-12-18T20:21:37+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/11/12/the-life-career-and-violent-death-of-a-would-be-saint-of-ottoman-syria/2020-11-13T05:51:01+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/10/01/the-funduq-saint-of-fez-abd-al-majid-and-his-exceptional-acts-of-devotion/2020-10-01T22:33:25+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/09/03/abd-allah-al-salasi-escapes-a-toxic-environment-and-is-not-going-back/2020-09-03T23:38:17+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/08/14/a-saints-shrine-is-his-castle-or-cautionary-tales-from-the-%e1%b9%a3afvat-al-%e1%b9%a3afa-2/2020-08-14T14:44:16+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/08/05/ali-ibn-mu%e1%b8%a5ammad-al-amili-and-the-aggressive-meccan-tour-guide/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cps_w609137a_fp_dd-2-e1596574527819.jpgcps_w609137a_fp_dd-2An eighteenth century Safavid depiction of the Ka'ba, around which our story's protagonist wanted to circumambulate. From a copy of the Khamsa of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (Walters W.609).2020-08-05T13:50:54+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/07/25/arguing-ibn-arabi-and-astrology-in-the-aq-qoyunlu-lands/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/16.17-d25-1986-forside-astrolab.jpg16.17-D25-1986-forside-Astrolabhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/copyright_david-collection_copenhagen_214-2006_web.jpgCopyright_David-Collection_Copenhagen_214-2006_webhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/0000.999.11458.rev_.noscale.jpg0000.999.11458.rev.noscalehttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/0000.999.11458.obv_.noscale.jpg0000.999.11458.obv.noscalehttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/fs-6307_09.jpgFolio from a Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d. 1020)(Calligrapher) Salik b. Sa'idhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ljs-434-jadacc84vil-i-ikhtiyacc84racc84t-e1595617068827.jpgLJS 434 Jadāvil-i ikhtiyārāt2024-12-11T05:57:15+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/music-of-islamicate-worlds-a-sampler/2020-07-15T04:57:19+00:00weekly0.6https://thicketandthorp.com/2020/06/18/the-cow-the-wolf-and-the-talking-rocks/2020-06-18T15:43:26+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/04/29/%e1%b8%a5acim-sul%e1%b9%adan-fights-a-dragon/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bibliothecc80que-nationale-de-france.-decc81partement-des-manuscrits.-persan-174-fol.-11v-e1588182667758.jpegBibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Persan 174 fol. 11vDragons have been fixtures of art and imagination in Anatolia for many centuries; this two-headed dragon (or, rather, the angel of the fourth station of the moon taking the form of a dragon!) hails from late 13th century Seljuk Anatolia, reflecting the absorption of Byzantine art and motifs into emergent Islamic art and culture in the region (BnF MS Persan 174 fol. 11v)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bnf-persan-174-fol.-83.jpegBnF Persan 174 fol. 83https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ident.nr_.-i.-4-sammlung-museum-fucc88r-islamische-kunst-e1588183661932.jpgIdent.Nr. I. 4 Sammlung- Museum für Islamische Kunst2026-03-10T20:36:25+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/04/26/vardapet-poghos-and-the-goats/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/default1-2-e1587909316760.jpgdefault1https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/default1-1.jpgdefault1https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/default1.jpgdefault1https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/default-e1587871266928.jpgdefault2020-04-26T13:59:35+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/04/21/ibn-askar-on-two-muslim-saints-of-the-early-modern-jbala/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2010eb8074_2500-e1587488967507.jpg2010EB8074_250017th century tile made in Morocco, perhaps indicating types of decorative architectural elements a tomb like that of Abū Bakr might have used during the period, in addition to the styles of tile better known from past and contemporary usage (V&A 1717-1892).https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1953.321_print-4218704640-e1671561466422.jpg1953.321_printDetail of a length of fabric of plain cloth and silk produced in 17th or 18th century Morocco (Cleveland Museum of Art J. H. Wade Fund 1953.321)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1918.43_print.jpg1918.43_print2023-02-04T19:50:54+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/03/20/%e1%b8%a5acim-sul%e1%b9%adan-the-questing-dervish-and-the-troublesome-nomads/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/14.2-26-1976-kenotaf-af-udskaaret-trae-3-e1584681194797.jpg14.2-26-1976-Kenotaf-af-udskaaret-trae-3https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/folio-from-a-divan-collected-poems-by-sultan-ahmad-jalayir-d.1410-verso-nomad-camp-recto-text.jpgFolio from a Divan (Collected poems) by Sultan Ahmad Jalayir (d.1410); verso- Nomad camp; recto- texthttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/fourtheenth-century-anatolian-carpet-e1584458987275.jpgFourtheenth Century Anatolian Carpethttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/harvard-1958.75.jpgHarvard 1958.752020-04-07T20:52:46+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/03/10/simeon-of-poland-does-not-have-a-good-time-in-quarantine/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/default-e1583858663919.jpgdefault2020-03-10T16:45:25+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/02/27/tasabi%e1%b8%a5/2020-02-27T15:32:01+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/02/18/around-the-late-medieval-world-with-abu-is%e1%b8%a5aq-al-kazaruni-and-the-sacred-soil-of-his-tomb/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/salting-mihrab-e1581960423763.jpgSalting MihrabA c. 1300 mihrab tile made in Kashan, which once decorated a tomb, perhaps of a saint. Abū Isḥaq's shrine is no longer extant, but it might well have at some point in its existence featured tilework such as this. (V&A C.1977-1910)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/magical-seal-cast-bronze-iran-14th-century.jpgMagical seal, cast bronze Iran; 14th century2020-02-18T18:35:09+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/01/10/the-attempted-assassination-of-shaykh-%e1%b9%a3afi-al-din-by-the-coward-shakhyzada-jamal-al-din/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2006ax4927_2500.jpg2006AX4927_2500https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/akm264.f349r_hero.jpgAKM264.f349r_HERO2020-01-10T13:29:34+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2020/01/04/shah-nimatullah-vali-in-the-very-snowy-mountains-of-samarqand/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/16.7-27-1967-stjerneformet-cuerda-seca-flise.jpg16.7-27-1967-Stjerneformet-cuerda-seca-flisehttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/visit-to-a-dervish-signed-mahmud-muzahhib-bukhara-dated-ah-968-1560-61-ad-.jpgVISIT TO A DERVISH SIGNED MAHMUD MUZAHHIB, BUKHARA, DATED AH 968 1560-61 AD2020-01-10T05:59:11+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/12/05/safavid-devotional-art-in-steel-script-and-scroll/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/default-2-e1575524266754.jpgdefaulthttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1987.14-1-e1575522904131.jpg1987.14https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/default-1-e1575522843343.jpgdefaulthttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cbl-is-1623-1-1-e1575522198478.jpgCBL Is 1623https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/default-e1575521564624.jpgdefaulthttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/copyright_david-collection_copenhagen_28-1997_web.jpgCopyright_David-Collection_Copenhagen_28-1997_webhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cbl-is-1623-e1575521804844.jpgCBL Is 1623Detail, cropped and flipped.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/fs-6125_13-e1575519196176.jpgDecorative Plaque PlaqueAnother Safavid pierced plaque, here extolling the last of the Twelve Imāms, also from the late 17th century. (Freer & Sackler F1997.21)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1987.14.jpg1987.142020-01-10T05:26:05+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/12/26/a-self-taught-shaykha-in-early-modern-fes/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/18773445.jpg18773445https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/length-of-textile-17th-18th-century-tunisia-17th-18th-century.jpgLength of Textile 17th-18th century Tunisia, 17th-18th centuryhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/moroccan-18th-century-sash-va-t.170-1929-e1577231119988.jpgMoroccan 18th Century Sash V&A T.170-1929https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/moroccan-metr.-quran-e1577230942883.jpgMoroccan Metr. Qur'anhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1916.1236_o2-e1577231533476.jpg1916.1236_o2Detail from a swathe of textile 2019-12-26T16:50:32+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/11/22/a-cultural-entrepreneur-in-late-eighteenth-century-cairo/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/wakala-oda-basha-e1574438727841.jpgWakala Oda BashaThe Wakālat Oda Başa, built in 1673 by an Ottoman Chief White Eunuch and, so far as I can determine, no longer extant, but depicted here as it existed in the 1830s, displaying the spatial configuration and use of an Ottoman wikāla akin to that in the biographical entry below. *Coste, Pascal. Architecture arabe; ou, Monuments du Kaire, mesurés et dessinés, de 1818 à 1826. Typ. de Firmin Didot frères et compagnie, 1839. Volume II plate XLIV.)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/dalail-e1574372405183.jpgdalailA Syrian (probably) University Library of Leipzig, Vollers 2002019-11-22T16:49:39+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/10/18/the-heat-of-the-divine-lights-the-story-of-a-rural-maghribi-majdhub/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/17th-century-moroccan-tile-va-1718-1892-e1571347620727.jpg17th century Moroccan Tile V&A 1718-1892Scripts of sainthood weren't the only things shared between the early modern world of the Islamic West and that of the Ottomans, of course. As discussed previously here, art motifs moved back and forth between the two regions, with Maghribi adaptations of Ottoman elements taking on distinctive local styles, such as this 17th century tile which incorporates distinctively Ottoman floral elements but in a quite different context. (V&A 1718-1892)2019-10-18T12:43:59+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/09/24/imam-al-layth-the-debtor-the-parakeet-and-the-ruler/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2015hn3377_2500.jpg2015HN3377_2500https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2015hn3413_2500.jpg2015HN3413_2500https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2015hn3379_2500.jpg2015HN3379_25002019-09-25T01:04:32+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/09/18/dalail-al-khayrat-coming-out-on-top/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/muhammad-bin-sulayman-al-jazuli-d.1465-ad-dalail-al-khayrat-north-africa-probably-morocco-17th-century-e1568779757876.jpgMUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI (D.1465 AD)- DALA'IL AL-KHAYRAT NORTH AFRICA, PROBABLY MOROCCO, 17TH CENTURYA 17th century copy of the Dalā'il from somewhere in the Maghrib (priv. coll., sale information here), executed in Maghribi script but in the rectangular format more typical of the eastern Islamicate world. Note the use of multicolored inks to write Muḥammad's name, as well as the presence of marginal notations.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2018_cks_15505_0027_000muhammad_bin_sulayman_al-jazuli_dalail_al-khayrat_north_africa_probabl-1-e1568779912818.jpg2018_CKS_15505_0027_000(muhammad_bin_sulayman_al-jazuli_dalail_al-khayrat_north_africa_probabl)From the same privately held manuscript as the above, facing pages depicting the Prophet's minbar (left) and his tomb (right), the tomb depiction having received a great deal of pious rubbing to 'activate' its baraka.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2018_cks_15505_0027_000muhammad_bin_sulayman_al-jazuli_dalail_al-khayrat_north_africa_probabl.jpg2018_CKS_15505_0027_000(muhammad_bin_sulayman_al-jazuli_dalail_al-khayrat_north_africa_probabl)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/tabih-al-inam-2-e1568780041764.jpgTabih al-inam 2An early illumined copy of Tanbīh al-anām (priv. coll., see sale info here), also from the Maghrib, combining rectangular format with a squarish illuminated panel typical of Maghribi production from the early Islamic period forward. Note the use of multicolored inks, as in the Dalā'il manuscript above.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/tanbih-al-anam-1-e1568780202958.jpgTanbih al-anam 1Another Maghribi copy of the Tanbīh, a 17th or early 18th century production (priv. coll., info here), again featuring multicolored inks, but also suggesting the more subdued status of the text by the 17th century: note how the lines, while executed in clear and neat Maghribi script, are packed onto the page, without abundant neutral space as in the copy of the Dalā'il above. https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/tanbih-al-anam.jpgTanbih al-anam2023-07-15T09:20:55+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/09/10/giving-delight-to-the-lords-of-spiritual-states/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/convent-of-the-rufai-dervishes-.jpgConvent of the Rufai Dervishes2019-09-10T19:29:40+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/08/14/ottoman-cultural-exchange-and-devotional-art-in-the-islamic-far-west/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/a-manuscript-of-five-sections-of-a-quran18th-century-ii-e1565803099402.jpgA Manuscript of Five Sections of a Qur'an,18th century iiFrontspiece to a juz' of the Qur'an, Magrib, mid-18th century (Met. 1982.120.2)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/a-section-juze28099-of-a-qure28099an-sura-3-92-170-e1565802311461.jpgA section (juz') of a Koran, sura 3:92-170 ManuscriptIlluminated opening page for a Qur'an subdivision (juz'). Freer and Sackler F1931.9.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/tevfik-muvaffikucc88e28099l-hayracc82t-li-neylie28099l-berekacc82t-fi-hizmet-menbaie28099s-saacc82dacc82t-e1565799553959.jpgTevfik muvaffikü’l-hayrât li-neyli’l-berekât fi hizmet menbai’s-saâdât,Karadavutzade Mehmed Efendi. Tevfik muvaffikü'l-hayrât li-neyli'l-berekât fi hizmet menbai's-saâdât. University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 672, fol. 2a.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/bibliothecc80que-nationale-de-france.-decc81partement-des-manuscrits.-arabe-6983-v-e1565807061294.jpegBibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Arabe 6983, vfol. 16vhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/an-extremely-fine-illuminated-ottoman-quran-copied-by-mustafa-dede-turkey-first-half-16th-century.jpgAn extremely fine illuminated Ottoman Qur'an, copied by Mustafa Dede, Turkey, first half 16th centuryhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/library-of-congress.-arabic-manuscript-sm-85.-e1571374432272.jpgLibrary of Congress. Arabic manuscript, SM 85.A calligraphic page, part of the late 17th into 18th century Maghribi elaboration of the Dalā'il's visual scheme, here from a copy made during the second half of the 18th century. (Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, SM 85) https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/jug-parcel-gilt-silver-embossed-engraved-and-punched-with-a-cast-handle-ottoman-empire-c.-1550-h-11.8-cm.jpgJug, parcel-gilt silver, embossed, engraved, and punched, with a cast handle Ottoman Empire; c. 1550 H: 11.8 cmhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/a-firman-imperial-decree-paper-written-in-divani-istanbul-turkey-981-h-1573-l-295-w-56-cm-e1565641486540.jpgA firman (imperial decree), paper, written in Divani Istanbul, Turkey; 981 H = 1573 L: 295; W: 56 cmThe tuǧra of Sultan Selim II, as affixed to a fermân issued in 1573. Note the intricate floral ornamentation filling the interior of the calligraphy- this is an especially colorful example. (David Collection Inv. no. 51/2002)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/fritware-jug-painted-in-blue-and-turquoise-under-a-transparent-glaze-.jpgFritware jug, painted in blue and turquoise under a transparent glazehttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/bibliothecc80que-nationale-de-france.-decc81partement-des-manuscrits.-arabe-6983-ii-e1565801613899.jpegBibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Arabe 6983 iiDalā'il al-khayrāt, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Arabe 6983, fol. 135r2024-04-02T11:09:32+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/08/07/abd-al-ghani-al-nabulusi-and-the-stoned-preacher-of-bulaq/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/preacher-with-ink-instead-of-rosewater-e1565196337323.jpgPreacher with Ink instead of RosewaterAnother Ottoman preacher whose reception was not what he was expecting: an illustration of a story of a preacher in a mosque who accidently sprinkled his face with ink instead of rosewater, from a 1721 copy of the Ḫamse of the Ottoman poet ʿAṭāʾī (d. 1634). From Walters Ms. W.666, fol. 48a.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/interior-of-the-mosque-of-sinan-pasha-cairo-photograph.jpgInterior of the mosque of Sinan Pasha, Cairo (Photograph)2019-08-07T21:11:55+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/08/02/the-bey-the-meczub-and-a-cure-for-beardlessness/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ottoman-kaftan-fragment.jpgOttoman Kaftan Fragmenthttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/sultan-murad-iii-r1574-1595-on-horseback-painting-recto-text-verso-illustrated-folio-from-a-manuscript-of-the-javahir-al-gharaib-tarjomat-bahr-al-ajaib-gems-of-marvels-a-translation-of-t.jpgSultan Murad III (r1574-1595) on Horseback (painting recto text verso) illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Javahir al-Gharaib Tarjomat Bahr al-Ajaib (Gems of Marvels- A Translation of the Sea of Wonders) of Jennabi (Cennabi)2019-08-02T20:49:39+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/07/16/sayyida-aisha-shuts-down-a-hater/2019-07-16T04:20:51+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/06/10/the-one-handed-calligrapher/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/dish-with-tughra-illuminator-designca.-1540e2809350-e1560140362359.jpgDish with 'Tughra-illuminator' Design,ca. 1540–50If overt imitation of the tuǧra was, for a while at least, discouraged, the illumination style of the tuǧra, visible in the above example from Süleymân, was reproduced in other contexts, such as in ceramics, like this dish from c. 1540-50, its scrolling tendrils drawn from tuǧra illumination. (Met. 41.45)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/lacma-suleyman-tughra.jpgLACMA Suleyman Tughra2019-06-13T14:00:23+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/05/21/shaykh-%e1%b9%a3afi-spends-the-night-in-a-deadly-shrine/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/miniature-from-a-copy-of-jafar-al-sadiqe28099s-falnama.-e2809cscene-from-a-mausoleume2809d-iran-tabriz-or-qasvin-c.-1550.jpgMiniature from a copy of Jafar al-Sadiq’s Falnama. “Scene From a Mausoleum” Iran, Tabriz or Qasvin; c. 15502019-05-27T04:33:51+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/05/16/on-the-answering-of-questions-in-the-world-of-dreams-two-early-modern-dreamers/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/bilacc82l-al-habashicc82-an-ethiopian-negro-tells-umar-ibn-al-khattacc82b-that-he-wants-to-go-to-damascus-e1558016800236.jpgBilâl al-Habashî, an Ethiopian negro, tells 'Umar ibn al-Khattâb that he wants to go to DamascusA2025-07-14T21:50:21+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/05/06/the-sesame-presser-who-almost-threw-the-qadi-in-the-water/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/divan-of-mahmud-abd-al-baqi-abu-saad-teaching.jpgDivan of Mahmud `Abd al-Baqi Abu Sa'ad teaching2019-05-06T12:54:05+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/04/22/shared-ottoman-worlds-of-imagination/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/abridged-bible-amida-e1555961182463.jpgAbridged Bible AmidaPage from an Armenian 'abridged Bible' produced in Amida in 1601 by Aslan and Hovannes (Chester Beatty Library Arm 551)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/the-prophets-yaqub-jacob-and-yusuf-joseph-seated-together-from-the-cream-of-histories-zubdat-al-tawarikh-by-sayyid-luqman-i-ashuri-e1555960844277.jpgThe Prophets Ya'qub (Jacob) and Yusuf (Joseph) seated together, from The Cream of Histories (Zubdat al-tawarikh) by Sayyid Luqman-i 'AshuriThe Prophets Ya'qub and Yusuf seated together, from 'The Cream of Histories' (Zubdat al-tawârîkh) by Sayyid Luqmân-i 'Ashuri (Chester Beatty Library T 414)2019-04-23T03:19:51+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/04/12/shaykh-%e1%b9%a3afi-al-din-goes-mountain-climbing/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/ardabil-carpet-e1555109053470.jpgArdabil Carpethttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/safi-al-din-dreaming.jpgSafi al-Din Dreaming2019-04-12T22:52:25+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/04/03/the-jinn-cat-and-the-seyh/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/index-e1554293888951.pngindex2019-04-03T17:32:24+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/03/16/teacher-student-text-and-the-control-of-knowledge-in-early-modern-damascus/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/dervishes-dancing-harvard-1958.23.149-e1552755273526.jpgDervishes Dancing, Harvard 1958.23.149Detail from a mid-16th century Safavid manuscript of Hafiz's Divān, here depicting sufi samā', with a ney player on the left, men dancing in ecstasy to the right. (Harvard Art Museum 1958.23.149 folio 149 verso)2019-03-17T02:02:18+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/03/15/why-and-how-history-sometimes-matters/2019-03-21T07:57:03+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2019/01/28/muslim-saints-and-dogs-a-sampler/2019-01-28T21:12:56+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/12/29/the-shaykh-and-the-wrestlers/2018-12-29T05:29:04+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/12/15/horses-herdsmen-wolves-and-otman-baba/2018-12-16T01:42:03+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/12/03/early-modern-campaign-life-through-the-eyes-of-margriet-van-noort/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/the-siege-of-the-city-of-alesia-melchior-feselen-2-e1543873103255.jpgthe siege of the city of alesia melchior feselen 2https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/the-siege-of-the-city-of-alesia-melchior-feselen.jpgthe siege of the city of alesia melchior feselen2018-12-03T21:46:38+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/07/07/dervish-mu%e1%b8%a5arram-finds-himself-in-strange-straits/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/portrait-of-a-sufi-deccan-e1530987815592.jpgPortrait of a Sufi DeccanWhile not an Ottoman production, this illustration of a sufi in contemplation (presumably), which comes from the 17th century Deccan, provides a good approximation of dervish dress and deportment in many parts of the Islamic world during this period. (Met. 57.51.22)2018-11-06T15:21:10+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/11/02/converting-constantinople-after-the-conquest-aksemseddins-finding-of-ebu-eyyub/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/scca7ehname-i-selim-han-bl-or-7043.jpgŞehname-i Selim Han (BL Or. 7043)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/sultan-succ88leymanc4b1n-eyucc88p-sultanc4b1-ziyareti.jpgSultan Süleyman'ın Eyüp Sultanı Ziyareti2018-11-05T20:23:16+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/11/05/print-culture-remixed-safavid-painting-across-confessional-boundaries/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/judith-with-the-head-of-holofernes-c-1479-1500-after-andrea-mantegna.jpgJudith with the Head of Holofernes, c. 1479-1500 After Andrea Mantegnahttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mss-1005.jpgMSS 1005https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/biblia-sacra-vulgatc3a6-pages-2-3.jpgBiblia Sacra vulgatæ, pages 2 & 3https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/hayrapet-julayeci-bible-e1539296315238.jpgHayrapet Jul'ayec'i bibleManuscript Bible, illustrated by Hayrapet Jul'ayec'i, 1649 in New Julfa. ("Matenadaran" Mesrop Mashtots Instutute-Museum of Ancient Manuscripts, ms 189)2018-11-05T20:22:55+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/10/15/shaykh-jawhar-and-the-green-bird-of-destiny/2018-10-15T16:21:36+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/10/04/a-tale-of-two-holy-wells-in-early-modern-constantinople/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/the-living-fountain.jpgThe Living Fountainhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/the-living-fountain-17th-century.jpgThe Living Fountain, 17th century2020-10-18T18:07:45+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/09/17/stability/2018-09-17T15:55:57+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/09/10/a-dangerous-vision-a-sufi-martyr-and-ghengiz-khan/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ilkhanid-star-tile-with-horse-e1536554009957.jpgIlkhanid Star Tile With HorseIlkhanid star-tile with poetry attributed to Majd al-Dīn around the border, made in 1310 (BMFA 31.729)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/this-folio-from-walters-manuscript-w-650-depicts-the-hanging-of-mansur-al-hallaj-s-e1536550996852.jpgThis folio from Walters manuscript W.650 depicts the hanging of Mansur al-Hallaj. sA depiction, from an early 17th century Mughal edition of Dihlavi's Diwan, of the martyrdom of al-Ḥallāj, perhaps the best-known, if for a long time contested and ambiguous, martyr in the history of sufism. Walters W.650.22B 2018-09-10T15:56:44+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/09/05/nader-shah-a-rebellious-governor-and-a-saints-intercessions/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fragment-of-a-pile-carpet-wool-and-silk-e2809canimal-carpete2809d-iran-end-of-16th-century-e1536200906185.jpgFragment of a pile carpet, wool and silk. “Animal carpet” Iran; End of 16th centuryhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/partly-colored-drawing-pasted-on-an-album-leaf-e2809ca-standing-dervish-e2809d-signed-muhsin-iran-isfahan-c-1650-e1536180090394.jpgPartly colored drawing pasted on an album leaf. “A Standing Dervish.” Signed Muhsin Iran, Isfahan; c. 1650Partly colored drawing pasted on an album leaf. “A Standing Dervish.” Signed Muhsin. Iran, Isfahan; c. 1650. Drawing: 15.1 × 7.6 cm David Collection Inv. no. 145/20062018-09-06T02:45:28+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/08/13/abd-al-wahhab-rescues-a-fly-in-peril/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hb_x-228-1.jpghb_x.228.1Working Title/Artist: Tile Department: Islamic Art Culture/Period/Location: Syria HB/TOA Date Code: 07 Working Date: 1st half of 15th c. photographed by mma in 1982, transaprency 2B scanned by film & media 2/22/01https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/w659_000287_sap-e1534183495597.jpgW659_000287_sapAn insect of some sort, from an 18th century Ottoman Turkish version of ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt (Wonders of creation) by Zakarīyā al-Qazwīnī (d. 1293). Walters Art Museum, W.6592018-08-13T18:38:19+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/08/12/saints-and-the-crossing-of-confessional-boundaries-in-the-ottoman-and-safavid-worlds-part-ii/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/armenian-11-priest-officiating.jpgArmenian 11 Priest Officiatinghttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/armenian-ms-11-folio-2-recto-e1534101372346.jpgArmenian MS 11, folio 2 rectoFrontspiece to a Gospel Book, Wellcome Collection MS Armenian 11, early 18th centuryhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/armenian-5-e1534101311405.jpgArmenian 52018-08-12T20:31:06+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/07/30/love-making/2018-07-31T03:21:25+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/07/23/on-not-knowing/2018-07-23T14:33:23+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/07/14/saints-and-the-crossing-of-confessional-boundaries-in-the-ottoman-and-safavid-worlds-part-i/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ottoman-armenian-e1531621261300.pngOttoman ArmenianAn Ottoman Armenian Christian resident of Istanbul, probably relatively well off enough to warrant his inclusion in a c. 1657‒58 costume collection book (The Rålamb book of costume, Rål. 8:o nr 10)2018-07-15T17:16:46+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/07/04/two-ways-of-dealing-with-the-jinn-in-the-ottoman-world/2019-08-02T18:39:53+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/05/27/ottoman-women-and-the-lives-of-saints-i/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ottoman-velvet-e1529981732148.jpgOttoman Velvet2018-07-04T18:36:46+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/06/25/semseddin-sivasi-saves-the-exiled-dogs/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/dogs-in-the-market.jpgDogs in the Market2018-06-26T03:52:07+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/06/23/ottoman-art-remix/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ottoman-quran-mounting.jpgOttoman Qur'an Mounting2018-06-23T14:26:30+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/06/17/race-slavery-and-sainthood-in-the-early-modern-ottoman-world-some-perspectives/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/bilal.jpgBilalhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/kadi-succ88nbucc88l-ali-e1529092439563.jpgKadi Sünbül AliKadı Sünbül 'Ali2018-06-23T03:10:26+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/06/16/a-magnificent-eighteenth-century-ottoman-book-cover/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ali-uskudari-i.jpgAli Uskudari ihttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ali-uskudari-ii.jpgAli Uskudari ii2018-06-17T02:14:47+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/06/01/semsi-pasa-loves-mushrooms/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_2796.jpgIMG_2796https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_2792-e1527800031500.jpgIMG_27922018-06-01T04:06:50+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/devotion-to-muhammad-in-early-modern-islam/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/dalail-al-khayrat-ottoman-e1521080264235.jpgDala'il al-khayrat Ottomanhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/dalail_al_khayrat_464x392.jpgdalail_al_khayrat_464x3922018-05-29T16:35:09+00:00weekly0.6https://thicketandthorp.com/2018/04/09/seyh-hasans-momentous-trip-to-uskudar/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/atik-valide-inscription.jpgAtik Valide Inscriptionhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_2778.jpgIMG_2778https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_2773.jpgIMG_27732018-05-29T16:31:23+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/05/28/ottoman-women-and-the-lives-of-saints-ii-money-trouble-and-a-sleep-talking-son/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/w10637.jpgw10637https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ottoman-yastik-e1527454079146.jpgOttoman YastikA 17th century Ottoman yastik, or pillow cover, an important and typical feature of domestic spaces (Boston MFA 77.256)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/woman-and-boy-going-to-the-hammam-e1527453971581.jpgWoman and boy going to the hammamWoman and boy on their way to the hammam, from an early 17th century costume album depicting various people one might encounter in Ottoman Istanbul (BM 1928,0323,0.46.122)2018-05-29T16:30:05+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/05/29/ottoman-women-and-the-lives-of-saints-iii-the-majdhub-and-the-pregnant-lady/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/syrian-tile-e1527531807489.jpgSyrian Tile17th century tile from Ottoman Damascus (Met. 1993.315)2018-05-29T14:25:49+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/an-anthology-of-ottoman-saints-lives/2018-05-29T14:25:02+00:00weekly0.6https://thicketandthorp.com/2014/10/09/on-true-spiritual-seclusion-and-exercise/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/a_damascus_pottery_tile_ottoman_syria_17th_century_d5479930h.jpga_damascus_pottery_tile_ottoman_syria_17th_century_d5479930h2018-05-28T17:47:16+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/05/17/reflections-on-entering-and-leaving-the-left-and-other-matters-part-i/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/vsevolod-mikhailovich-garshin-1855e280931888.jpgVsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (1855–1888)2018-05-17T19:27:25+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/05/16/dervis-omers-mother-mocks-a-saint/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/iznik-tile-e1526475234494.jpgIznik Tilehttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cps_w66635b_fp_dd-2-e1526413408583.jpgcps_w66635b_fp_dd-2Hailing from a different story, this illustration from Atayı's Hamze provides a good visualization of sleeping arrangements in an Ottoman house (though the furnishings along the wall indicate a more lavishly equipped dwelling than the one suggested in our story). (W.666.35B)2018-05-16T13:02:57+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/04/26/a-saint-of-the-rural-road-in-ottoman-anatolia/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sofra-close-up-e1524748067311.jpgSofra close uphttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ottoman-sofra.jpgOttoman Sofra2018-05-16T13:02:03+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/04/19/mehmedagasdeliverance/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/velvet-ottoman-panel-of-carnations-e1524166866340.jpgVelvet Ottoman Panel of Carnationshttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ottoman-levend-e1524166996322.jpgOttoman LevendAn Ottoman levend, or irregular soldier, from the Ralamb Book of Costumes. Such soldiers, while recruited by Ottoman military commanders for 'official' warfare, often ended up taking up a life of brigandage when demobilized. 2018-05-16T12:48:51+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/05/14/the-art-of-self-knowledge/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/john-donne.jpgJOhn Donne2018-05-14T15:53:17+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/05/13/at-the-end-of-the-winter-southwest-virginia/2018-05-13T19:50:16+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/04/24/the-spirit-of-robinson-jeffers-rises-along-the-lost-river/2018-04-24T16:09:49+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/04/23/shaykh-ala-al-din-goes-on-campaign/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/divan-of-mahmud-abd-al-baqi-ottoman-army2-e1524504912649.jpgDivan of Mahmud `Abd al-Baqi Ottoman ArmyThe Ottoman army enters a city, from an illuminated copy (Met. 45.174.5) of the Divan of the poet Bâkî. Note the banner held aloft by the soldiers in the top right corner, as well as the diversity of soldiers and other support personnel visible.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/divan-of-mahmud-abd-al-baqi-ottoman-army1-e1524454690714.jpgDivan of Mahmud `Abd al-Baqi Ottoman ArmyA close-up from the above of the army's bannerhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/divan-of-mahmud-abd-al-baqi-ottoman-army.jpgDivan of Mahmud `Abd al-Baqi Ottoman Army 2018-04-23T19:46:51+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/04/20/a-human-figure-in-profound-meditation/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/the-repentant-magdalene.jpgA12399.jpgGeorges de La Tour (French, 1593 - 1652), The Repentant Magdalen, c. 1635/1640, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund 1974.52.12018-04-20T14:00:53+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/04/17/the-lion-the-lady-and-the-dervishes-seyh-hasan-unsis-transformation/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/iznik-tile-e1523993843567.jpgIznik Tilehttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/woman-on-the-way-to-hamam-e1523993230982.pngWoman on the Way to HamamWoman and child on the way to the hamam, from the Rålamb Book of Costumes, depictions of residents of Istanbul in the 1650s, a couple of decades before our story.2018-04-19T19:02:43+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/04/14/questions-and-answers-with-the-elders-of-gaza/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/barsanuphe.jpgBarsanuphe2018-04-15T03:51:33+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/04/13/untamed-eucharist-and-eschaton/2018-04-13T19:01:54+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/03/13/early-modern-conversion-stories-from-across-eurasia/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/mausoleum.jpgMausoleumhttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/john-nelsons-khalwa.jpgJohn Nelson's Khalwa2018-03-16T15:50:33+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/03/16/to-be-able-to-give-one-has-to-possess/2018-03-16T15:49:23+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/03/15/shaykh-abu-al-%e1%b8%a5asan-wont-take-no-for-an-answer/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/scca7eyh-gucc88lscca7eni-and-disciples-e1521145031266.jpgŞeyh Gülşeni and DisciplesŞeyh Gülşenî (at center on the left), a 15th into 16th century Ottoman saint, bids some of his disciples and khalīfas farewell at a dock, illustrating the relationship between a saintly shaykh and his disciples also on display in the below story from another Ottoman context. From an 18th century illustrated copy of Ata'is Hamse (Walters 666.41A)2018-03-15T20:38:01+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2015/05/25/saints-nomads-sex-and-repentance/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/dp166872-e1432589662676.jpgDP166872Storage Bag (Chuval) Face, early 19th century Islamic, Wool (warp, weft and pile), cotton (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile; Rug: H. 29 1/2 in. (74.9 cm) W. 54 1/2 in. (138.4 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922 (22.100.40a) http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/4474982018-03-15T19:44:36+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/03/06/the-surprising-uses-of-commentary-in-an-ottoman-saints-life/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/15th-sharh-on-ajurrumi-e1520309248859.jpg15th Sharh on AjurrumiA page from a late medieval commentary on the Ajurrūmiyya, the grammar text that figures into one of the stories below. The lemma- the commented upon text- is in red, with the commentary in black.2018-03-11T03:29:24+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/03/10/i-shall-treat-their-wounds/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/byzantine-icon-of-the-crucifixion-met-17-190-44-e1520736738383.jpgByzantine Icon of the Crucifixion Met 17.190.44A mid-tenth century Byzantine (probably produced in Constantinople) depiction of the Crucifixion, relief icon in ivory (Metr. 17.190.44). Beside the bearded figure at the base of the Cross is an inscription which reads: 'The Cross implanted in the stomach of Hades.'2018-03-11T03:21:04+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/03/03/indeed-grace-will-be-the-judge/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/mar-isaac.jpgMar Isaachttps://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/st-isaac.jpgSt. Isaac2018-03-04T04:18:53+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/02/25/no-more-notes/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/preacher-with-ink-instead-of-rosewater-e1519611312142.jpgPreacher with Ink instead of RosewaterAn illustration of the interior of a 17th century Ottoman mosque, which wouldn't be too far off from the setting of the below story- the preacher on the minbar, the candles at the mihrab, the men seated to listen to the preaching, and the neatly lined up shoes, all would have been seen, albeit in somewhat different forms (the floral decoration on the side of the minbar, for instance, is a clear indication that this is a 17th or 18th century setting). (Walters M.666)https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/majalis-al-e28098ushshak-gathering-in-a-mosque-miniature-painting.jpgMajalis al-‘ushshak- Gathering in a Mosque [Miniature Painting]2018-02-27T04:34:03+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/02/27/on-landscapes/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/a-brazilian-landscape.jpgA Brazilian Landscape2018-02-27T04:33:04+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/02/15/st-paisius-loves-grapes/2018-02-15T18:05:54+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/02/08/on-influence/2018-02-09T03:54:26+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/02/07/notes-on-the-why-of-doing-history/2018-02-07T20:43:46+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/02/04/the-khan-and-the-vardapet/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/the-scribe-petros-and-his-pupils-1386-e1517547656325.jpgThe Scribe Petros and his Pupils, 1386The scribe Petros and a pupil, offering a good example of the sort of clothing a vardapet might have worn in the late medieval or early modern period. From a Gospel book completed in 1386 in the Lake Van region (J. Paul Getty Collection, Ms. Ludwig II 6, fol. 13v).2018-02-05T04:16:37+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/02/02/the-incident-at-nabi-samwil/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/img_5151-e1517603044472.jpgIMG_51512018-02-04T19:32:45+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2017/12/21/nanih-waiya/2018-02-02T05:09:15+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/02/01/depicting-devotion-to-muhammad-images-in-an-ottoman-compendium/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/muhammads-sandal-e1517429979578.pngMuhammad's SandalDepiction of the sandal of the Prophet, Ms. or. oct. 1602, 44v.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/names-of-god-and-names-of-muhammad-osmanische-sammelhandschrift-17xx-e1517429575669.pngNames of God and Names of Muhammad Osmanische Sammelhandschrift , 17XXHilye-i Şerîf, from Ahlâk-i resûl Allâh, from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Ms. or. oct. 1602, 48v.2018-02-01T20:43:49+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2017/12/14/o-monarch-of-the-heart/2018-02-01T20:42:32+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/01/25/walking-in-tel-aviv-the-night-before-flying-home/2018-01-25T03:46:42+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/01/24/relics/2018-01-24T03:11:56+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/01/23/devotional-art-in-white-and-blue-an-ottoman-tile-panel-from-damascus/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/panel-of-tiles-17th-century.jpgPanel of Tiles, 17th century2018-01-24T02:01:03+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/01/18/early-modern-muslim-saints-shrines-evidence-from-miniatures/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/e2809cprayers-in-a-mosquee2809d-miniature-from-kulliyat-i-mawlana-ahli-shirazi-collected-works-of-mawlana-ahli-shirazi-shiraz-iran-c-15501.jpg“Prayers in a Mosque” Miniature from Kulliyat-i Mawlana Ahli Shirazi (Collected Works of Mawlana Ahli Shirazi) Shiraz, Iran; c. 1550https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/e2809cprayers-in-a-mosquee2809d-miniature-from-kulliyat-i-mawlana-ahli-shirazi-collected-works-of-mawlana-ahli-shirazi-shiraz-iran-c-1550-e1515812698645.jpg“Prayers in a Mosque” Miniature from Kulliyat-i Mawlana Ahli Shirazi (Collected Works of Mawlana Ahli Shirazi) Shiraz, Iran; c. 1550https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/miniature-from-a-copy-of-jafar-al-sadiq_s-falnama-e2809cscene-from-a-mausoleume2809d-iran-tabriz-or-qasvin-c-1550.jpgMiniature from a copy of Jafar al-Sadiq_s Falnama. “Scene From a Mausoleum” Iran, Tabriz or Qasvin; c. 15502018-01-19T00:59:13+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/01/11/explicating-devotion-to-muhammad-part-i/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/image-e1515617041728.jpgimage2018-01-11T01:05:37+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2018/01/10/thoughts-from-above-the-frozen-potomac/2018-01-11T02:39:05+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2017/12/13/devotion-to-muhammad-in-islam-an-introduction/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hilye-triptych.jpgHilye 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Window, 17th century [Egypt or Syria]. (93.26.3,4) In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.2014-11-29T05:59:21+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2014/11/09/translating-dhikr/2014-11-09T21:42:24+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2014/11/01/textures-end-of-october/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img_1576.jpgIMG_1576https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img_1568.jpgIMG_1568https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img_1564.jpgIMG_1564https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img_1556.jpgIMG_1556https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img_1554.jpgIMG_1554https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img_1552.jpgIMG_15522014-11-02T01:18:15+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2014/10/27/father-proterij-and-the-friendly-birds/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ornament-detail-21.pngOrnament Detail 2https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ornament-detail-2.pngOrnament Detail 22014-10-28T03:35:38+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2014/10/26/an-early-modern-monastic-baking-disaster/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ornament-detail.pngDetail from GospelA detail from the Gospel manuscript of Luke the Cypriot (active 1583-1625), who worked in various places in the Ottoman Empire before settling in Moscow, where this Gospel was completed.2014-10-26T21:41:49+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2014/10/07/come-to-the-banquet-of-god/2014-10-08T03:29:03+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2014/10/05/the-irish-hermits-wish/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mzl-hijcuivh.jpgmzl.hijcuivh2014-10-05T21:36:07+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2014/10/03/it-rains/2014-10-03T16:07:23+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2014/10/01/roses-for-kera-khatun/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/layered_rose_by_abdullah_buhari.jpglayered_rose_by_Abdullah_BuhariA rose by the Ottoman artist Abdullah Bukharī, c. 1733.https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/rose-petals-in-fes.jpgRose petals in FesA basket of rose petals and bottles of rosewater, Fes, 2008.2014-10-01T20:08:51+00:00monthlyhttps://thicketandthorp.com/2014/09/26/christmas-on-the-mughan-steppe-1736/https://thicketandthorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mesrop_of_khizan_armenian_active_1605_-_1651_-_the_baptism_of_christ_-_google_art_project.jpgMesrop_of_Khizan_(Armenian,_active_1605_-_1651)_-_The_Baptism_of_Christ_-_Google_Art_ProjectLeaf from Ms. Ludwig II 7: Mesrop of Khizan (Armenian, active 1605 - 1651). Isfahan, Persia, 1615. Tempera on glazed paper 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