List of Illustrations
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publishers will be glad to make good in future editions any errors or
omissions brought to their attention. (Photographic acknowledgements are given in brackets.)| 1. Yūsuf Fleeing from Zulaykhā, illumination from the manuscript of Būstān of Saʽdī, completed by the calligrapher Sultan Muhammad Nur, Bukhara, Uzbek dynasty, c. 1535. ( The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Louis V Bell Fund and Astor Foundation Gift, 1974. [ 1974.294.4] All rights reserved) | |
| 2. Double page from a Quran written in Makka or Madina, eighth century or later ( © The British Library, London [Or.2165 ff.67v-68]) | |
| 3. Opening chapter of the Quran and opening passage of Surat al- Baqara, in Nashki script, presumably Egypt, c. 1510 (Private Collection/ ET Archive) | |
| 4. Interior of the Mosque of Sultan Hasan, Cairo, lithograph from "'Egypt and Nubi′", vol. 3, by David Roberts ( The Stapleton Collection/ Bridgeman Art Library, London) | |
| 5. The First Ships Sailing through the Suez Canal, watercolour, 1869, by Edouard Riou ( Compagnie Financière de Suez et de l'Union Parisienne) | |
| 6. A Princely Youth and a Dervish beneath a Tree, drawing from an album made on behalf of the Sultan of the Poor, Rahemā, by Reza-yeʽAbbāsī, Iran, Isfahan, Safavid period, second quarter of seventeenth century. ( The Metropolitan Museum of Aft, Rogers Fund, 1911 [11,84.13]. All rights reserved) | |
| 7. Dervishes dancing during Ramadan, Cairo, Egypt ( © Abbas/ Magnum Photos) |
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Publication information:
Book title: Islam in the World.
Edition: 2nd.
Contributors: Malise Ruthven - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: Oxford.
Publication year: 2000.
Page number: xviii.
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