Title: Section from the Kiswah of the Ka‘bah
Date: late 19th or early 20th century
Location: Cairo, or possibly Mecca
Materials: silk lampas
Dimensions: 158 x 89cm
Accession Number: TXT 38
Other Notes:
The pattern consists of zigzag bands alternately enclosing the shahadah (‘There is no god but God, Muhammad is the Messenger of God’) and the invocation ‘O! God’, ‘May his Majesty be exhalted’, the latter in mirrored script.
Bibliography:
S. Vernoit, Occidentalism. Islamic Art in the 19th Century, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume XXIII, London 1997, cat.8, pp.26–7.
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