Late period

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Illustration from the Akbarnama

Tughra (Official Signature) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent from Istanbul — […]

Tughra (Official Signature) of Sultan Süleiman the ...

Coins of faith and power at the British Museum — […]

Coins of faith and power at the ...

The Damascus Room (detail) — […]

Qa’a (The Damascus room)

Mimar Sinan, Süleymaniye Mosque (detail) — […]

Mimar Sinan, Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul

Mimar Sinan, Rüstem Pasha Mosque, Istanbul — […]

Mimar Sinan, Rüstem Pasha Mosque, Istanbul

Khusraw Discovers Shirin Bathing, From Pictorial Cycle of Eight Poetic Subjects, mid 18th century, oil on canvas, 91.4 x 88.9 cm, Shiraz, Iran (Brooklyn Museum) — […]

Khusraw Discovers Shirin Bathing

Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 1632-53 (photo: Mathew Knott, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) — […]

The Taj Mahal

Divination Bowl with Inscriptions and Zodiac Signs, mid 16th century, copper alloy (brass), engraved with repoussé center, 3 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2in. / 9.5 x 21.6 x 21.6cm (The Brooklyn Museum) — […]

Divination Bowl with Inscriptions and Zodiac Signs

Iznik ewer, 2nd half of the 16th century (Ottoman), fritware, painted in black, cobalt blue, green, red under transparent glaze, 17-7/8 x 15-1/2 inches / 45.4 x 39.4 cm (photo: Brooklyn Museum, CC BY 3.0) — […]

Iznik ewer

View of lower half, Spherical Hanging Ornament, Iznik, Turkey (Ottoman), c. 1575-85 (Brooklyn Museum) — […]

Spherical Hanging Ornament (Iznik)

Emperor on a pedestal (detail), Bichtir, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings from the "St. Petersburg Album," 1615-1618, opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper, 18 x 25.3 cm (Freer|Sackler: The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art) — […]

Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to ...

Medallion Carpet, The Ardabil Carpet, Unknown artist (Maqsud Kashani is named on the carpet's inscription), Persian: Safavid Dynasty, silk warps and wefts with wool pile (25 million knots, 340 per sq. inch), 1539-40 C.E., Tabriz, Kashan, Isfahan or Kirman, Iran (Victoria and Albert Museum) — […]

The Ardabil Carpet

Ottoman miniature showing a Safavid dignitary before Ottoman sultan, Sultan Murad III, n.d. (Topkapi Museum, photo: Walter Denny) — […]

Introduction to the court carpets of the ...

Sedefkâr Mehmed Ağa, Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque), completed 1617 (photo: Tim O'Brien/Oberazzi, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) — […]

The Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmet Camii)

Mimar Sinan, Mosque of Selim II, Edirne, Turkey, 1568–75 (photo: grcnysll CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) — […]

Mimar Sinan, Mosque of Selim II, Edirne

The Ardabil Carpet, Maqsud of Kashan, Persian: Safavid dynasty, silk warps and wefts with wool pile (25 million knots, 340 per sq. inch), 1539-40 C.E., Tabriz, Kashan, Isfahan or Kirman, Iran (Victoria & Albert Museum) — […]

Arts of the Islamic world: The Later ...