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Ottoman Embroidery, Silk Thread on Fabric, 1907. "I believe in Allah (God), in His angels, in His books, in His messengers, in the last day and in the fact that everything good or bad is decided by Allah, and in the life after death. I bear witness that there is no god but God and Muhammad… ⬇️
Ottoman Embroidery, Silk Thread on Fabric, 1907
"I believe in Allah (God), in His angels, in His books, in His messengers, in the last day and in the fact that everything good or bad is decided by Allah, and in the life after death. I bear witness that there is no god but God and Muhammad is His messenger."
https://x.com/ottomanarchive/status/2057149386707066999?s=46&t=V4TqIkKwXmHjXV6FwyGPfg
u/HistoricalCarsFan — 1 day ago
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Zebun Nessa Mosque, Ashulia, Bangladesh
‘’A factory owner in Ashulia, Bangladesh, wanted to build a mosque for his workers. He gave the commission to a Bangladeshi architect. Not an imported name. Not a foreign firm. A local architect who understood the land, the climate, and the culture she was building for.
In 2025, Time Magazine named it one of the greatest places in the world, the first Bangladeshi building to ever appear on that list.
The entire structure is one material. One colour. Pink-pigmented concrete, perforated with small rectangular voids that filter light into the prayer hall the way hanging lanterns did in old mosques. A dome floats unsupported over the circular prayer space. The high plinth references the Bhiti, the earthen mound that Bangladeshi homes have been built upon for centuries in the deltaic floodplain. The building knows where it comes from because the architect did.
Across Africa, clients with the same resources make a different call. Foreign firms. Imported aesthetics. Buildings that could exist anywhere. The brief gets fulfilled. The opportunity gets wasted.
Trusting a local architect with his mother’s name just made global history. That should mean something to us.
Zebun Nessa Mosque, Ashulia, Bangladesh 🇧🇩 | Studio Morphogenesis | Lead Architect: Saiqa Iqbal Meghna | 6,060 sq.ft | 2023 | 📷 Asif Salman, City Syntax’’
Credit
https://x.com/shavnyuy/status/2056987774197059940?s=46&t=V4TqIkKwXmHjXV6FwyGPfg
u/AutoMughal — 1 day ago
Aftermath of the Great Eastern Crisis: Russian soldier on the outskirts of Constantinople, 1878
u/AutoMughal — 1 day ago
Rosewater bottle; Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Türkiye; Hegira last quarter of the 10th century/AD 16th century; Gold, silver, various metals, porcelain and glass. Decorated with turquoise-work (firuzekari) and openwork.
u/HistoricalCarsFan — 1 day ago
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Illustration of Ottoman Constantinople in the 16th century.
u/MYONIONISSCREAMING — 1 day ago
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A Muslim Port in Spain (Full Episode) | S7 EP1 | Time Team (Denia, Spain) - The team's Spanish challenge is to show what port life was like 1,000 years ago when Denia was an Islamic settlement run by a pirate king
The team's Spanish challenge is to show what port life was like 1,000 years ago when Denia was an Islamic settlement run by a pirate king.
u/AutoMughal — 1 day ago
More on the Tantura massacre
IDF never changed, never had reform. Imagine a group that behaved this way and was rewarded for it for the next 8 decades. That's what we have today.
u/BlitzFritzXX — 3 days ago
Gold box set with 103 Colombian emeralds. India, Mughal Empire, 1635 AD [2500x3650]
u/HistoricalCarsFan — 3 days ago
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Sicily: The Arab quarter of Zabut, corresponding to present-day Sambuca di Sicilia, originates from the Emir of Trapani, Ibn Mankud, around 1050 during the Fatimid period. This attribution, passed down through local tradition, is corroborated by the geographer al-Idrisi in the 12th c.
u/AutoMughal — 2 days ago
Fajr Adhan at Guantanamo Bay
Yes, it's an old video. But it's still timeless.
(Orginal video: https://youtu.be/w2g9X0E3HFc filmed by investigative reporter Jason Leopold)
u/Lovaar — 3 days ago
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Birjandi, Abd Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Husayn al-. Sharh al-tadhkirah. [ca. 1585/1591 CE =] 999 or 994 H.
Large 8vo (146 x 238 mm). Arabic manuscript on polished oriental paper. 865 pp. (paginated in a later hand), 25 lines, per extensum. Black ink with red underlinings and emphases. With numerous diagrams in the text. Contemporary blindstamped full calf, restored and spine rebacked.
A rare, complete, and well-preserved late 16th century Arabic manuscript of Al-Birjandi's "Sharh al-Tadhkirah", a commentary (originally in Persian) on the "Tadhkira", the astronomical memoir of the Persian polymath at-Tusi (1201-74). As consistent with the Islamic tradition of commentary, Al-Birjandi provides explanations for the reader and provides alternative views while assessing the viewpoints of predecessors.
Abd Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Husayn Birjandi (d. 1528) was a prominent Persian astronomer, mathematician and physicist from Birjand. A pupil of Mansur ibn Muin al-Din al-Kashi, of the Ulugh Beg Observatory, he anticipated notions later developed by Galileo Galilei in the West.
Copied by the scribe Abd al-Wahhab bin Mawlana Baha al-Din. Somewhat browned throughout; some waterstaining to lower half, more pronounced near the end of the volume. The text illustrations show sections, celestial spheres and other astronomical and mathematical diagrams. Old waqf stamp to first leaf. Restored binding uses original cover material.
u/AutoMughal — 2 days ago
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Commissioned in 1194 by Sultan Ghiyas-od-din, the 65m Minaret of Jam rises in Afghanistan's remote Hari-rud valley. This Ghurid marvel, adorned with intricate Kufic and geometric brickwork, serves as a peak of medieval engineering and the direct architectural inspiration for India's Qutb Minar.
u/Beyondtheseafree — 3 days ago
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"Laila and Majnun at School", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
"Laila and Majnun at School", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Calligrapher Ja'far Baisunghuri Iranian
Author Nizami
835 AH/1431–32 CE
Not on view
This splendid painting is from a manuscript of the frequently illustrated story of Laila and Majnun by the twelfth-century Persian poet Nizami. It was commissioned by the Timurid prince Baisunghur of Herat, one of the greatest bibliophiles in all Islamic history, who gathered at his court the very best painters from Baghdad, Tabriz, Shiraz, and Samarkand to illustrate his matchless collection of books. This illustration depicts Qais, the future "mad one" (Majnun) for love, and Laila, his beloved, who meet for the first time as children at a mosque school. The painting underscores the closely related aesthetics of figural painting and abstract calligraphy, architectural tiling and royal carpet weaving in traditional Islamic civilization, united here in a visual symphony of flat but dramatically colored patterns. The scene depicts the child lovers framed in the mosque's prayer niche in order to emphasize their mystical status. These visual conventions of Persian art, usually laden, as here, with Neoplatonic symbolism, crystallized in the royal cities of Tabriz and then Herat at the turn of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and endured for another 250 years in the court paintings of Iran, Turkey, and India.
Title: "Laila and Majnun at School", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Calligrapher: Ja'far Baisunghuri (Iranian, active Herat, first half 15th century)
Author: Nizami (present-day Azerbaijan, Ganja 1141–1209 Ganja)
Date: 835 AH/1431–32 CE
Geography: Made in present-day Afghanistan, Herat
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions: Page: H. 12 5/16 in. (31.3 cm)
W. 9 in. (22.9cm)f
Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm)f
W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)
Classification: Codices
Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1994
Object Number: 1994.232.4
Signature: Colophon signed by Ja'far, "at Herat" and dated A.H. 835 (A.D. 1432)
Inscription: Inscriptions on opening page and in bands in miniatures in nasta'liq, naskha, and kufic script:
The architectural inscriptions in Arabic on gold bands are mainly in nashka script and are translated:
Under the dome: The Prophet—may God pray for him and bless him—said: "Your welfare comes from your knowledge of the Qur'an, and its knowledge is veracity."
Side wall: God...said: "And the mosque's are Allah's, so call not upon (anyone) with Allah" (LXXXII: 48).
Minaret, upper band: Allah is the greatest.
Minaret, lower band: The prayer is the pillar of religion.
Niche in back wall in kufic script: The reign is God's only.
Over side door in kufic script: The recollection of the encounter is upon...(?)
Marking: Calligraphed by Ja'far with dedication to Prince Baisunghur(d.1433)
Provenance
Prince Baisunghur, Herat, present-day Afghanistan (1432–d. 1433); Ebadollah Bahari, London (1960s–1994; sold to MMA)
u/AutoMughal — 2 days ago
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Leaked docs show US told Pakistan 'things will get difficult' if Imran Khan not ousted from office - For years, the US denied playing a role in the coup against Khan, which came after he refused to allow the CIA to establish a drone base on Pakistani territory
A secret Pakistani diplomatic cable, published for the first time on 18 May, confirms that a senior US diplomat insisted on the removal from office of former prime minister Imran Khan in 2022.
According to the cable, revealed by Drop Site News, Donald Lu, then US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs, told Pakistan's ambassador in Washington, Asad Majeed Khan, that "all will be forgiven" if the former PM was removed through a no-confidence vote in parliament.
The cable was sent after Khan traveled to Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on 24 February 2022, the same day Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
Lu stated that Khan's meeting with Putin in Moscow raised “serious concern” in Washington, as noted in the cable dated 7 March 2022 and classified as “Secret / No Circulation.”
Islamabad said Khan's Moscow trip had been planned months earlier and was unrelated to the Russian invasion, and stressed that it was pursuing a "neutral" policy toward the war.
The cable included Asad Majeed Khan's assessment that Lu had received approval from the White House to send that message. The ambassador also stated that Lu's remarks constituted interference in Pakistan's internal political affairs.
The document was forwarded to various Pakistani officials, including the prime minister's office secretary, the foreign minister, the army chief, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief, and the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) division director.
Khan was ousted as prime minister in a legislative coup six weeks later, on 9 April 2022. He revealed the existence of the cable at that time, claiming his removal was part of a “US-backed regime-change operation.”
Pakistan's government grew closer to Washington in the wake of Khan's removal via a no-confidence vote.
Before his ouster, Khan had rejected a request to allow the CIA to establish drone bases on Pakistani territory that would be used to carry out attacks and assassinations.
However, after Khan's removal, Pakistan began supplying weapons to Ukraine through US defense contractors and third-country intermediaries, Drop Site News reported.
US support for Pakistan's IMF loan was tied to weapons shipments, with the IMF approving a $3 billion standby in July 2023.
Khan faces 150 legal cases. He was arrested inside the Islamabad High Court building in May 2023 and convicted just days before crucial elections in January 2024, which saw his political party, the "Movement for Justice (PTI)," banned from using its signature symbol.
Authorities also ordered journalists and television news channels not to mention Khan's party in their election coverage.
In December of last year, UN Special Rapporteur on torture Alice Jill Edwards warned that Khan was being held in prison in conditions that could amount to torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment.
Edwards stated that Khan is subjected to lengthy periods of solitary confinement in a small cell without natural light or proper ventilation. The inadequate air flow causes unpleasant odors and insect problems, resulting in Khan experiencing nausea, vomiting, and significant weight loss.
Imran Khan, a 72-year-old ex-professional cricket player, has faced major health challenges, such as a severe spinal injury from a 2013 accident and gunshot wounds sustained during a 2022 assassination attempt.
u/HistoricalCarsFan — 3 days ago
"Within his family (the Ottoman Dynasty), there was no greater enemy of Christians than him. Among the followers of the Arab faith, he was one of the most sincere believers in the path of [the Prophet] Muhammad; he adhered to the commandments of his religion to the letter and would remain sleepless until dawn, devising the necessary measures to inflict harm upon the Christians."
As seen by Doukas, one of the last Byzantine historians. From the 'Doukas Chronicle' (p. 25)
u/Cenixxen — 3 days ago
An Algerian woman sexually abused by French soldiers
#Never_Forget 🇩🇿
u/Beyondtheseafree — 4 days ago