EditorialShams i Tabriz and dervishes. Majalis al-'Ushshaq of Sultan Husayn Mirza. Shiraz, Iran, 1590-1600. Shams i Tabriz on horseback and a companion on a mule. encountering dervishes in a landscape. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of...
EditorialScenes from the Crimea: Dance of the Dervishes in Bakshi-Saraj mosque in old Taurida 1, and a Jewish batteleur (juggler, street performer) from Constantinople dancing with a puppet to music from drums and pipes in the Crimea 2, 18th century. Handcolour...
EditorialConvent of the Mullaw?yeh, or dancing dervishes, Tripoli, with a distant view of the snow crowned summits of Lebanon. In the foreground flows the Kad?sha (the sacred river), called also Nahr Ab? Ali. On the pathway may be seen a water-wheel and two mil...
EditorialF?lix Bonfils, Damascus. Mosqu?e de la Dervicherie. Geky?h Syrie, albumin paper, black and white positive process, image size: height: 27.80 cm; width: 22.00 cm, inscribed: recto: lower left edge of the image copied in: Bonfils, lower right image borde...
EditorialDervish, 17th?century, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, without mounting: 3 15/16 ? 1 3/4 in. (10 ? 4.5 cm), Dervishes are adherents to a mystical tradition within Islam known as Sufism, though they are distinguished from other Sufi practitio...
EditorialSa'di, 'Dancing Dervishes', Folio from a Gulistan of Sa'di, Sa'di (ca. 12131291), Folio from an illustrated manuscript, 17th century, Attributed to Iran, Isfahan, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 10 7/16 in. (26.5 cm), W. 6 1/16 in. (15.4 ...
EditorialThe live and dead dervishes. The two dervish friends of Khurasan who were walled up in a prison for two weeks, after which it was found that the strong man had died and the frail one survived. Gulistan. Bukhara, 1567. Source: Or. 5302, f.58. Language: ...
Editorial'Dancing Dervishes', Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, recto: ca. 1610; verso: ca. 1530?50, Attributed to India, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 15 3/16 in. (38.6 cm), Codices, The 'Emperor?s Album,' to which this folio belongs, was made f...
EditorialScenes from the Crimea: Dance of the Dervishes in Bakshi-Saraj mosque in old Taurida 1, and a Jewish batteleur (juggler, street performer) from Constantinople dancing with a puppet to music from drums and pipes in the Crimea 2, 18th century. Handcolour...
EditorialThe live and dead dervishes. The two dervish friends of Khurasan who were walled up in a prison for two weeks, after which it was found that the strong man had died and the frail one survived. Gulistan. Bukhara, 1567. Source: Or. 5302, f.58. Language: ...
EditorialThe live and dead dervishes. The two dervish friends of Khurasan who were walled up in a prison for two weeks, after which it was found that the strong man had died and the frail one survived. Gulistan. Bukhara, 1567. Source: Or. 5302, f.58. Language: ...
EditorialDancing dervishes. Masnavi. Tabriz, Iran, c.1530. Dancing dervishes. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of the Masnavi of Rumi ('The Teachings of Rumi'). Image taken from Masnavi. Originally published/produced in Tabriz, Iran, c.1...
EditorialYusuf in the slave market. Total of 13 leaves separately mounted. Most of the subjects are dervishes and mullas. (Johnson collection). undated in catalogue. Source: J.7,2.
EditorialSultan Sanjar spies dervishes. Majalis al-'Ushshaq of Sultan Husayn Mirza. Shiraz, Iran, 1590-1600. Sultan Sanjar, riding with two attendants, looks from above into a building in which dervishes are seated in conversation. A miniature painting from a s...
EditorialDervishes dancing. Majalis al-'Ushshaq of Sultan Husayn Mirza. Shiraz, Iran, 1590-1600. Dervishes dancing in a courtyard with musicians and a young man watching from a doorway. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of the Majalis al-...
EditorialThe live and dead dervishes. The two dervish friends of Khurasan who were walled up in a prison for two weeks, after which it was found that the strong man had died and the frail one survived. Gulistan. Bukhara, 1567. Source: Or. 5302, f.58. Language: ...
EditorialShams i Tabriz and dervishes. Majalis al-'Ushshaq of Sultan Husayn Mirza. Shiraz, Iran, 1590-1600. Shams i Tabriz on horseback and a companion on a mule. encountering dervishes in a landscape. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of...
EditorialDervishes dancing. Majalis al-'Ushshaq of Sultan Husayn Mirza. Shiraz, Iran, 1590-1600. Mawlana Muhammad Tabadkani and dervishes dancing to music in a courtyard. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of the Majalis al-'Ushshaq ('The ...
EditorialDancing dervishes. Masnavi. Tabriz, Iran, c.1530. Dancing dervishes. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of the Masnavi of Rumi ('The Teachings of Rumi'). Image taken from Masnavi. Originally published/produced in Tabriz, Iran, c.1...
EditorialYusuf in the slave market. Total of 13 leaves separately mounted. Most of the subjects are dervishes and mullas. (Johnson collection). undated in catalogue. Source: J.7,2.
Editorial'King Salih of Syria Entertaining Two Dervishes', Folio from a Bustan (Orchard) of Sa'di, 17th century, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, Codices.
Editorial'Dancing Dervishes', Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, recto: ca. 1610; verso: ca. 1530?50, Attributed to India, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 15 3/16 in. (38.6 cm), Codices, The 'Emperor?s Album,' to which this folio belongs, was made f...
EditorialScenes from the Crimea: Dance of the Dervishes in Bakshi-Saraj mosque in old Taurida 1, and a Jewish batteleur (juggler, street performer) from Constantinople dancing with a puppet to music from drums and pipes in the Crimea 2, 18th century. Handcolour...
EditorialHINDOO FAKIR, INDIA. A Muslim Sufi ascetic in the Middle East and South Asia. The Faqirs were wandering Dervishes teaching Islam and living on alms.