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A mural in the Umayyad palace of Qusayr 'Amra in Jordan showing six kings, among them the kings of Persia and Byzantium and the Negus; one of the oldest surviving Islamic murals. ¹

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Horse colours and markings in Timurid painting· The Pisa Griffin· Aniconism in Islam· Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns

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islam.museum contributors. “Painting of the Six Kings”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/lawhat-al-muluk-al-sitta/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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Horse colours and markings in Timurid painting

Timurid manuscript painters drew horses in distinct colours (white, red, yellow, black) and markings (blazes, leg whites, spots). Fayed reads these differences as evidence of real horse types in Samarkand, Herat and Shiraz, and uses them to place paintings in their centres.