فن المنمنمات الإسلامي

A map of Egypt by Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis in Kitab-i Bahriye, 16 century.

An old map of Tabriz. According to The Cambridge History of Iran, Tabriz was founded in early Sassanids times in 3rd or 4th century A.D. or more probably in 7th century.

Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, EA1978.2573. ‘The angel Ruh holding the celestial spheres’. A single page from a manuscript of Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini ‘s The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence (Arabic: ‘Aja’ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara’ib al-mawjudat). Western Iran, second half of the 16th century.

The city of Baghdad. From a medieval illustrated manuscript

16th century map of Soltaniyeh city by Matrakçı Nasuh

[The oldest extant] Rectangular Map of the World, from 'Kitāb Gharāʾib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn' (The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes), a 12th/13th century cosmographical manuscript composed in Egypt

Persian design at pink mosque, Shiraz-Iran

Siege of Belgrade (Hünernâme (1588 CE Ottoman Miniature Painting) -Seyyid Lokman)

Copy of Jami's Yusuf wa Zulaykha, Central Asia

10th C. Persian. Bilal, giving the call to prayer. An ethopian slave born in Mecca in 580, later freed, he was a close companion of Muhammad who chose him as Islam's first Muezzin.