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Tiraz textile naming the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim
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Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art John L. Severance Fund 1950.549
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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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While shaving the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (d. 809) in the bathhouse, a barber impertinently professed his love for the ruler’s daughter and asked to marry her. Astounded at ...
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The design of this textile panel consists entirely of religious texts and invocations, disposed in wide horizontal bands in thuluth script, alternating with narrow bands in kufic s...