Entrée du Tombeau de Sultan Bezkouk, au Kaire

This small painting has been carefully, if unfortunately, cut from a manuscript page, preserving the pictorial elements that extended beyond the gold ruling. The opposite side of t...

This portrait of the Ottoman sultan Selim II (r. 1566-1575) represents the Ottoman portraiture tradition which began in the fifteenth century with likenesses of Mehmed II, followin...

Makhzan al-asrar contains stories dealing with religious and moral values, worldly power, and spiritual concerns. This episode of Nizami’s poem tells of an old woman who complained...