My Name Is Red · Islam Museum

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In time

Literature Images and figural art Arts of the book

Overview

The novel by Orhan Pamuk (1998): Istanbul in 1591, where Ottoman miniaturists are killed one after another over a secret book of the sultan that breaks the rules of Islamic art with Western perspective. ¹

Legacy

Among the most translated novels in modern Turkish; it makes Islamic art a philosophical question: who looks at the world, and with what eye? ¹

People and things also explored

Horse colours and markings in Timurid painting· The Pisa Griffin· al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)· Aniconism in Islam· Arabesque· Arab naming of children after plants· Girih

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islam.museum contributors. “My Name Is Red”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/ismi-al-ahmar/. 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.