Photography in India. A rare witness to the spread in popularity of photography in India in the late nineteenth-century, with no other copies trace...

Sufi poetry by a follower of the celveti order. Sayyid Hashim Mustafa al-Uskudari al-Jalwati (Hashim Mustafa Uskudari), known as Hashim Baba, was a...

Quadrant with associated calendar. The astrolabic quadrant was particularly popular in Ottoman Turkey, and countless examples survive, mainly for t...

By a prominent Hui Islamic leader. Ma Liangjun (1871-1957) was a renowned Hui Muslim Akhund in the Northwest and a famous Islamic scholar ('Hui' re...

Silsilname are geneaological manuscripts, often presented in scroll format, that were popular during the Ottoman Empire where they served as a too...

Copied in the holy city of Medina. The name referred to in the colophon, Sheikh Ahmad bin Muhammad ein Muhammad Tayyeb al-Maghribi al-Fassi, is lik...

An attractive calligraphic Qur'anic scroll containing excerpts from the Holy text in stylised forms forming geometric patterns and calligraphic co...

A charming prayer scroll containing prayers arranged in accordance to the 7 days of the week, intended for daily use and probably carried in a sma...

With two illuminated miniatures. Sheikh Shams al-Din Muhammad 'Assar Tabrizi was a poet, scholar and mystic of fourteenth-century Persia, and this ...

First english translation. The first English translation of this poem by Jami and first translation from Persian by Edward Fitzgerald. Salámán and ...

First english edition of the qur'an. George Sale (1697–1736) was a British Orientalist and lawyer. This first edition was published in 1734 and was...

Inscribed by the author. Kamal al-Din Husayn al-Kashifi was a well known Persian writer on mysticism and preacher who died in Herat in 910 AH (1504...

Urdu poetry. A volume comprising the works of two of the most important Urdu literary poets Dag Delhavi and Mir Hassan, lithographed in 1915.Two vo...

Vintage educational poster containing text about Hajj with photographic illustrations of Mecca, very slight darkening along old fold lines else br...

A magnificent example of Ilkhanid Qur'an production with fine calligraphy and elegant marginal ornamentation, likely produced in Persia circa 1350...