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Calligraphic Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad
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Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
[Adrienne Minassian New York 15 September 1982] sold; to Edwin Binney 3rd 1982 bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums 1985.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums
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Calligraphic Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad (recto); Geneaology of the Prophet Muhammad (verso) , left-hand side of a bifolio from a manuscript
Calligraphic Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad (recto); Geneaology of the Prophet Muhammad (verso) , left-hand side of a bifolio from a manuscript
Copied in naskh script by Ismail Bosnavi, these two folios (2002.50.119 and 2002.50.135) contain a hilye (Arabic hilya), or calligraphically rendered description in Arabic of the P...
Calligraphic Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad, right-hand side of a bifolio from a manuscript
Calligraphic Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad, right-hand side of a bifolio from a manuscript
Copied in naskh script by Ismail Bosnavi, these two facing folios (2002.50.119 and 2002.50.135) contain a hilye (Arabic hilya), or calligraphically rendered description in Arabic o...
Calligraphic panel showing stylized views of Mecca and Medina and Sandals of the Prophet Muhammad
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Ten Thousand Years, Ten Thousand Years of Sleep, One Hundred Million Scattered Pieces
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The Prophet Muhammad and His Companions at a Feast (painting, recto; text, verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of Siyar-i Nabi (The Life of the Prophet) by Mustafa Darir of Erzurum
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