Midle East Hist Test 2

Quwwat al-Islam Mosque, Delhi, begun 1190s

Qutub Minar built 1199 and 1368.  238 feet high

Reused Iron Pillar bearing Sanskrit inscriptions – originally part of a Hindu temple complex built by

Chandragupta II (r. c. 380 – c. 415) – one of the most famed emperors of the Hindu Gupta empire.

Installed in front of the prayer hall by Delhi Sultan Iltumish. Weighs 7 tons, made of an alloy that resists all decay.

Qutub Minar built 1199 and 1368

Quwwat al-Islam Mosque, Delhi 

238 feet high

Tomb of Humayun (father of Akbar)

Delhi

1562

Throne Column and Platform

Diwan-i Khass (Hall of Private Audience)
Palace Complex, Fatehpur Sikri

1571-1585

Tomb of Salim Chishti

Fatehpur Sikri

1580-81

Taj Mahal

Agra

1632-47

CHINTZ

Hanging of painted and dyed cotton

made in western India for the British market

Late 17th or early 18th century

Carpet with flower pattern

Carnations, tulips, lilies, irises, and roses

Wool and cotton

1650

Reign of Shah Jahan

Koh-i Noor (Mountain of Light) Diamond

105 karats (21.6 grams)

Turban ornament, probably second half 17th century

India, probably Deccan (Hyderabad?)

Fabricated from gold; with champlevé and

overpainted enamels; worked in kundan technique

and set with emeralds and diamonds

Shah Jahan’s Jade wine cup

1657

White Nephrite Jade in the form of a halved gourd, with an ibex-head handle and poppy footrest

Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings 

1615-1618

Lahore, India

Martyrdom of St. Cecilia
Album Page based on original European engraving

Ca. 1600

Lovers in a Landscape

India, Lucknow; 1760-1770

The Royal Pavilion at Brighton, UK (completed 1822)

Mehmet Pasha sabil (fountain), Cairo, 1820

Osman Hamdi Bey

Kuran Okuyan Kız (Girl Reciting the Qur’an)

1880

Osman Hamdi Bey

Lesson at the Mosque Door 

1891

Mihr AliPortrait of Fath Ali Shah

1800-06

Oil on Canvas

227x131cm

Tehran

Now in Musée du Louvre

The Tarboush or Fez

Portrait of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II after his clothing reforms in 1829.

Toros Roslin

Canon Tables from the Zeytun Gospels

1256

Armenia

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, Ms. 59

Sykes-Picot Agreement

1917

Iconic ceramic signs in Jerusalem’s Old City

English, Arabic, and Hebrew 

Armenian Ceramicists in early 20^th c. Jerusalem

Restorations to the Dome of the Rock

Mahmoud Said
The Whirling Dervishes

1929

Alexandria, Egypt

Kova Tembel

The “Pioneer Hat”

Common in Israel from the 1950s-1980s

Here, worn by Jewish workers and farmers on the kibbutz,

socialist agricultural collectives formed to make Jews self-sufficient

Aleppo Codex
Tiberias, Galilee

10^th c.

Kept in Aleppo Synagogue, Syria, for centuries

Now in the Shrine of the Book, Israel

Kefiyya: a symbol of Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation

Date of origin: unknown

Becomes significant as a symbol in the 1960s and 1970s when Yasser Arafat was the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

Hijab

Date of origin unknown (Roman women covered their heads as a sign of status and modesty, so its origin is probably pre-Islamic)

Its adoption or removal becomes significant as a political and religious symbol in the 20^th c.

Bahia Shehab

A Thousand times No and Blue Bra

Graffiti on wall in Cairo

2011-2012

Image on right reads:
“No to the stripping of people”

“Long live the revolution”

Lalla Essaydi (Moroccan, B. 1956) 

Harem #16

2009

chromogenic print mounted on aluminum
71 x 88in. (180.5 x 223.5cm.)