Jonathan Parkes Allen
Mar_Musa
Two pages, with the colophon on the left, of a marvelous abbreviated Qur'an with a Spanish interlinear translation (BnF Arabe 447), completed in 1569 by Ybrahim Isquierdo, who hailed from
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And now a super-thread on the winding & complicated (pun intended) history of the tuǧra, a textual feature often defined as a 'calligraphic emblem' for 'Turkic' rulers, though that definition
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a few mostly personal thoughts on the news concerning the Hagia Sophia: my feelings are rather mixed, tbh. Part of me is glad that somebody at least gets to publicly
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