The Eavesdropper

المسترق

"The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet); Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 13.228.13.6.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Overview

A page from the Haft Paykar of Nizami: al-Mustariq; about 1430, Timurid Herat. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1

People and things also explored

Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Horse colours and markings in Timurid painting· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Arabic calligraphy and its teaching

Sources

  1. Metropolitan Museum Open Access
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