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Zuleikha presenting Yusuf’s shirt. A page from an album (or manuscript) with ghazal poems written by Al-Saadi.
(زليخة وهي تقد قميص يوسفصفحة من ألبوم أو مخطوطة مع أشعار غزل موضوعة من قبل السعدي)

Title	Zuleikha presenting Yusuf’s shirt. A page from an album (or manuscript) with ghazal poems written by Al-Saadi.
Title Original	زليخة وهي تقد قميص يوسفصفحة من ألبوم أو مخطوطة مع أشعار غزل موضوعة من قبل السعدي
Author	unknown
Author Original	مجهول
Publication Date:	17th century AD (miniature) 16th century AD (planning)
Publication Place	Isfahan, Iran (?) - Khninko Museum
Subject	Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper — Isfahan School
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع : 25 سم ، العرض : 14.5 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	439 ГРВ
Record ID	object;EPM;uc;Mus21;7;ar
Library Location	Khninko Museum
Date	17th century AD (miniature) 16th century AD (planning)
Notes	The miniature displays on the page one of the main verses of the story “Yusuf and Zuleikha” by Jami. Zuleikha seduces Yusuf (depicted with flames emanating from the Prophet around his head) in her majestic palace where she declares her love to him. But the chaste Yusuf tries to escape and elude her. Zuleikha caught up with him and caught him at the door and grabbed the hem of his dress. The man wearing a golden crown was watching the scene from behind an open door to the left. Perhaps he was Zuleikha’s Egyptian noble husband. He bit his finger in surprise and on his mouth was a conditional gesture in a Persian miniature that expresses great astonishment. The expression, composition and style of the painting follow the famous miniature dating back to 1640 AD and attributed to the brush of the painter Moin Musawwar (1617-1702), a prominent teacher of the Isfahan school of painting. It is surprising that the miniature is painted on a page from a poetry album (or manuscript) from the late sixteenth century that contains poems by Sa’idi al-Shirazi (1203/1210-1291), a great Persian poet.
Sample Text	“Zulaikha presenting Yusuf’s shirt. A page from an album (or manuscript) with poetry composed by Al-Saadi” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uc;Mus21;7;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	Prepared by:Antonina MAKAREVYCH,Hanna RUDYK
Seçili bibliyografya	Canby, Sheila R. (ed),Safavid Art and Architecture, London: British Museum Press, 2002.Farhad, M., “The Art of Muʿin Musavvir: A Mirror of His Times,” in Sheyla R. Canby (ed),Persian Masters: Five Centuries of Painting, Bombay: Marg, 1990.Rudyk, H. (ed),Charisma of Iran. Persian art of 12th–19th centuries from museum collections of Ukraine, Kyiv: The Khanenko Museum, 2017.
Atölye	Isfahan school (?)

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Zuleikha presenting Yusuf’s shirt. A page from an album (or manuscript) with ghazal poems written by Al-Saadi.

(زليخة وهي تقد قميص يوسفصفحة من ألبوم أو مخطوطة مع أشعار غزل موضوعة من قبل السعدي)

Author unknown

Author Original مجهول

Publication Date 17th century AD (miniature) 16th century AD (planning)

Publication Place Isfahan, Iran (?) - Khninko Museum

Subject Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper — Isfahan School

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع : 25 سم ، العرض : 14.5 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 439 ГРВ

Record ID object;EPM;uc;Mus21;7;ar

Library Location Khninko Museum

Date 17th century AD (miniature) 16th century AD (planning)

Notes The miniature displays on the page one of the main verses of the story “Yusuf and Zuleikha” by Jami. Zuleikha seduces Yusuf (depicted with flames emanating from the Prophet around his head) in her majestic palace where she declares her love to him. But the chaste Yusuf tries to escape and elude her. Zuleikha caught up with him and caught him at the door and grabbed the hem of his dress. The man wearing a golden crown was watching the scene from behind an open door to the left. Perhaps he was Zuleikha’s Egyptian noble husband. He bit his finger in surprise and on his mouth was a conditional gesture in a Persian miniature that expresses great astonishment. The expression, composition and style of the painting follow the famous miniature dating back to 1640 AD and attributed to the brush of the painter Moin Musawwar (1617-1702), a prominent teacher of the Isfahan school of painting. It is surprising that the miniature is painted on a page from a poetry album (or manuscript) from the late sixteenth century that contains poems by Sa’idi al-Shirazi (1203/1210-1291), a great Persian poet.

Sample Text “Zulaikha presenting Yusuf’s shirt. A page from an album (or manuscript) with poetry composed by Al-Saadi” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uc;Mus21;7;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Antonina MAKAREVYCH,Hanna RUDYK

Seçili bibliyografya Canby, Sheila R. (ed),Safavid Art and Architecture, London: British Museum Press, 2002.Farhad, M., “The Art of Muʿin Musavvir: A Mirror of His Times,” in Sheyla R. Canby (ed),Persian Masters: Five Centuries of Painting, Bombay: Marg, 1990.Rudyk, H. (ed),Charisma of Iran. Persian art of 12th–19th centuries from museum collections of Ukraine, Kyiv: The Khanenko Museum, 2017.

Atölye Isfahan school (?)