Tiraz Textile Naming Abbasid Caliph Mu`tadid

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 ...

The coin is dated 284 H. (897-898)....

The coin is dated 288 H. (900-901)....

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...

This small bowl, reconstructed from about ten fragments, depicts a standing female figure. Half of her head, starting at the widow’s peak, and the top portion of the implement in h...

On the central section of this textile, an inscription in large thuluth script is repeated twelve times. The text comes from the Sura al-Fath (Victory, 48:3): “And that Allah may ...

This green-splashed dish,represents the glazed luxury wares being produced in Abbasid Iraq by the late eighth to early ninth century. The rounded walls and slightly everted rim of ...

Translations into Arabic of scientific and philosophical treatises from the Greco-Roman world laid a critical foundation for the advances made by Muslim physicians, scientists, and...