Arabic Collection (page 6)

Timbuctoo, c1852, (1903). Artist: Johann Martin Bernatz
Timbuctoo, c1852, (1903). From The Worlds History, Volume III, by Dr. H. F. Helmolt [William Heinemann, London, 1903]

Bazaar of El Ghoria, Cairo, Egypt, 20th century. Artist: J Dearden Holmes
Bazaar of El Ghoria, Cairo, Egypt, 20th century. Sunbeam Tours stereoscopic card detail

The Hall, c1880-1882. A print from Modern Artists, prepared under the direction of FG Dumas, JS Virtue and Co, London, c1880-1882

The Arab Hall, c1880-1882. Artist: Frederic Leighton
The Arab Hall, c1880-1882. The Arab Hall was the centrepiece of the home of the artist Sir Frederic Leighton in Holland Park, London

The Interior of the Mosque of Santa Sophia, Constantinople, Turkey, 19th century. Hagia Sophia, also known as the Church of the Holy Wisdom

A Moroccan Saddling his Horse, 1855. Artist: Eugene Delacroix
A Moroccan Saddling his Horse, 1855. Delacroix, Eugene (1798-1863). Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Arabic poster, 19th century. From a private collection

Ceramic tile with Kufic script, Friday Mosque, Isfahan, Persia, c1500

Mosaic detail, Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, c687-692

Astrolabe, Arabian navigational instrument, 11th century. An astrolabe was an ancient navigational instrument, forerunner of the sextant, to fix the position of a star

Glazed brick tiling in Shah-i-Zinda Complex, Samarkand, 14th-15th century. Artists: CM Dixon, Unknown
Glazed brick tiling in Shah-i-Zinda Complex, Samarkand, 14th-15th century. This was the burial place of most of the Timurid princes

Detail of Tomb in Shah-i-Zinda Complex, Samarkand, 15th century. Artists: CM Dixon, Unknown
Detail of Tomb in Shah-i-Zinda Complex, Samarkand, 15th century. Glazed-brick decoration (Timurid Dynasty). Shah-i-Zinda is a necropolis in the north-eastern part of Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Arabic 18th century planispheric astrolabe, 18th century
Arabic 18th century planispheric or flat astrolabe, 18th century

Hoard of arabic metalwork from a Viking grave in Sweden, showing the extent of Viking trade. In the Museum of National Antiquities collection in Stockholm

Double page spread from a Koran with marginal decoration, 1867

Double page spread from a Koran with marginal floral decoration, Turkish, 1855

Abraham preparing to sacrifice his son Isaac to God, 18th century
Abraham preparing to sacrifice his son Isaac to God in place of the sacrificial lamb held by a figure in the background, 18th century. Illustration from an Arab manuscript

Arab manuscript depicting an angel weighing a soul

Pilgrims at Mecca. Illustrated page for a copy of the Koran. From the Anthropological Museum, Amsterdam

Arabian travellers on camels, being greeted at the end of their journey. After a 13th century Arab manuscript

Page of the Koran from Egypt, 9th century
Page of the Koran, in squared kufic script, from Egypt, 9th century

Page from a copy of the Qur an, Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258), 9th century

Calligraphic Exercise Showing Measurements of Individual Letters, 18th / 19th century
Calligraphic Exercise Showing Measurements of Individual Letters, 18th/19th century

Helmet, Turkish, probably Istanbul, ca. 1560. Creator: Unknown
Helmet, Turkish, probably Istanbul, ca. 1560

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