Sitarah for the Prophet’s Mihrab
Title:
Sitarah for the Prophet’s Mihrab
Date: with the tughra of Sultan Abdulmajid I (r. 1839 – 1861)
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Materials: turquoise-blue silk with red and bright-green silk appliqués, relief-embroidered in silver and silver-gilt wire over card and cotton thread padding
Dimensions: 298 x 208 cm
Accession Number: TXT 272
Script:
The roundel at the top of the sitarah is inscribed with Qur’an, Surat Al ‘Imran, III, part of verse 37. As the same text is inscribed above the Prophet’s mihrab in the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina, it is more than likely that this sitarah was made for it. Below this is a row of six small roundels with the names of Abu Bakr, ‘Umar, ‘Uthman, ‘Ali, Hasan and Husayn, followed by a panel with the Ayat al-Kursi (‘Verse of the Throne’; Surat al-Baqarah, verse 255), below which is the tughra of Sultan Abdulmajid I.
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