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 ...
EditorialFront: Qutb ad-Din, left, as the Roman emperor Caracalla, dressed with kuras, staff? Over right shoulder and shield over left. Worn, remains of inscription. Reverse: rules inscription., Coin, dirham of Qutb ad-Din Muhammad, Zengid emir of Sinjar, metal...
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,...