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Gold dinar minted in Alexandria, Egypt, 467 AH (1074-1075 AD)

from The Khalili Collection

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Ceramics and glassware at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art

Athens, Greece

All photos by me

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Gilded and enameled mosque lamp, Egypt, circa 1385

from The Khalili Collection

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Beautiful Morning 🤎

Cairo, Egypt 🌿

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"Returning What Was Once Lost" — an orphaned Sakina once again finds herself in the arms of her father...

Feeling bittersweet as Ayyam-e-Aza—the Shi'i mourning period—draws to a close after over two months. It's a season of tearful goodbyes as well as reunions, of loved ones put to rest, of martyrs uniting in the next world, of earthly wayfarers aching to return to this very same realm next year...

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Suleiman Basha Al-Khadim Mosque 🌿

Cairo, Egypt 2024 🌻

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Masculine but like in a Islamic Angel way

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The Lovers, Reza Abbasi, 1630

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Jean-Léon Gérôme Retour de la chasse, Circassian à l'abreuvoir ca. 1877

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Silver and gold gilded incense burner, Syria, 13th century

from The State Museum of Berlin

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Sweet chestnut leaf with gold calligraphic inscription, Turkey, 19th century

The leaf is inscribed with a Qur’anic verse from Surat al-Isra’ (“The Night Journey,” Q17:80): “And say, ‘Lord grant me a good entrance and a goodly exit, and sustain me with Your power.”

Aga Khan Museum

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I keep thinking about this guy I saw in Dallas.

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The horoscope of the Persian Timurid ruler Iskandar Sultan, 1411. This is the only surviving individual illuminated horoscope from medieval Islam. Al-Mizan (Libra) is at 3 o'clock in the circle of zodiac signs.

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Azerbaijani artist Tunzala Mamedzadeh's Hand-Painted Quran in Gold on 164 Feet of Black Silk

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Unknown, Persian bowls, 10th-13th century