Publication Date
The shirt is undated. The date shown is based on comparisons with similar items in Topkapi Palace and also as paintings in manuscripts
Publication Place
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Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Subject
Cotton, embossed with colored inks and gold, a shirt made of 10 pieces of fabric sewn together.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
سم 87 × 101 ( حيث الأكمام ممدودة)
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
TXT 545
Record ID
object;EPM;uk;Mus22;28;ar
Library Location
Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Date
The shirt is undated. The date shown is based on comparisons with similar items in Topkapi Palace and also as paintings in manuscripts
Notes
The chest and back of the shirt are covered with Qur’anic verses and supplications and supplications to God written in a variety of calligraphy and arranged in panels and decorative elements in various shapes. There are two decorative elements on the front bearing images of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, each within a decorative frame surrounding delicate images of other holy sites in the surrounding areas. The display of holy places on talismanic shirts is rare. Among the well-known examples are a shirt with a picture of the Holy Mosque in Mecca, a hat with embroidered pictures of the Prophet’s Mosque in the Topkapi Palace Museum, and scenes of both on an Indian shirt in the Al-Khalili collections. But all of them are unreal images, unlike the views on this shirt that are realistically depicted.
Sample Text
"Talisman Shirt" within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uk;Mus22;28;ar
