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Tiraz textile naming the Fatimid caliph al-Mustaʿli
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Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art Gift of the The Textile Arts Club to commemorate its 30th Anniversary 1965.313
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The Caliph Harun al-Rashid in the Bath (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Makhzan al-Asrar) by Nizami
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