EditorialMaker: Khwaja Ghiyath ad-din Ali, active late 16thearly 17th century, Textile Fragment with Figures, Animals, and?Plants, late 16thearly 17th?century, Triple-weave silk, 8 7/8 ? 16 5/16 in. (22.6 ? 41.5?cm), Poet, painter, mystic, and master weaver of ...
EditorialMaulana Muhammad Ibn Husam ad Din, 'Abu'l Mihjan and Sa`d ibn Abi Wakkas Before a Ruler', Folio from a Khavarannama (The Book of the East) of ibn Husam al-Din, Maulana Muhammad Ibn Husam ad Din (Persian, died 1470), Folio from an illustrated manuscript...
EditorialMausoleum of Saladin or An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (1137-1193). First sultan of Egypt and Syria. Founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. He was buried in a mausoleum in the garden outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. Seven centuries later,...
EditorialMausoleum of Saladin or An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (1137-1193). First sultan of Egypt and Syria. Founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. He was buried in a mausoleum in the garden outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. Seven centuries later,...
EditorialMausoleum of Saladin or An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (1137-1193). First sultan of Egypt and Syria. Founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. He was buried in a mausoleum in the garden outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. Seven centuries later,...
EditorialSyria. Qal'at Ja'bar. Castle on the left bank of Lake Assad. The current structures are primarily the work of Nur ad-Din Zangi, who rebuilt the castle from 1168 onwards. Ar-Raqqah Governorate.