EditorialJahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, from the St. Petersburg album. Date/Period: From 1615 until 1618. Painting / watercolor painting. Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper. Height: 25.3 cm (9.9 in); Width: 18 cm (7 in). Bichitr. BICHTR.
EditorialJahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, from the St. Petersburg album. Date/Period: From 1615 until 1618. Painting / watercolor painting. Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper. Height: 25.3 cm (9.9 in); Width: 18 cm (7 in). Bichitr. BICHTR.
EditorialJahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, from the St. Petersburg album. Date/Period: From 1615 until 1618. Painting / watercolor painting. Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper. Height: 25.3 cm (9.9 in); Width: 18 cm (7 in).
EditorialKitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars) of al-Sufi, 18th century, Attributed to Iran, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 9 13/16 in. (24.9 cm), Codices.
EditorialSufi saints sitting on a verandah, with trees and landscape in the distance,1760. Some hold prayer beads, the two at the top are sitting on a carpet and have haloes. In the foreground a stool with books. In the border inscriptions in Persian and Hindi ...
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...
EditorialSufis Entering a Castle, probably from a biographical?dictionary, late 17thearly 18th?century, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, without mounting: 9 3/4 ? 6 in. (24.8 ? 15.2 cm), Sufism is a tradition within Islam that is characterized by asce...
EditorialPortrait of a Sufi, Illustrated single work, first quarter 17th century, Attributed to India, Deccan, Bijapur, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, OveralL. 15 3/8 x 10 3/8in. (39 x 26.3cm), Dimensions of painting: 5 5/16 x 8 7/8in. (13.5 x 22.5c...
EditorialSufi saints. c.1760. Six Sufi saints seated on a terrace; Khvaja Mu'in al-Din, Ghaus al-A'zam, Khvaja Qutb al-Din, Shaikh Mihr, Shah Sharaf Bu 'Ali Qalandar and Sultan Musa Shaikh. Opaque watercolour and gold. Originally published/produced in c.1760. ...
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...
EditorialSufi saints sitting on a verandah, with trees and landscape in the distance,1760. Some hold prayer beads, the two at the top are sitting on a carpet and have haloes. In the foreground a stool with books. In the border inscriptions in Persian and Hindi ...
EditorialPortrait of Sufi Allah Yar Khan Sahib seated on a morha holding a crutch stick. Skinner album. 1820 - 1830. watercolour and brush drawing. 1820 - 1830 Delhi style. Source: Add.Or.1258.
EditorialThe old Sufi crossing the water on his prayer mat after he had been refused a passage by the ferryman. A miniature painting from a seventeenth century manuscript of Sa'di's Bustan ('The Flower-Garden'). Bustan. India, 1629. Source: Add. 27262, f.59v. L...