Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya - <p>A&nbsp;pilgrimage&nbsp;scroll&nbsp;(<em>ziyārātnāma</em>) dated&nbsp;1433&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;name&nbsp;of&nbsp;Sayyid&nbsp;Yusuf&nbsp;b.&nbsp;Sayyid&nbsp;Shihab al-Din Ma Waraʾ al-Nahri records an&nbsp;<em>ʿumra</em>&nbsp;to Mecca and visits (<em>ziyārāt</em>) to Medina, Jerusalem, Hebron, Najaf, and Karbala. This document reflects a common phenomenon&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;central&nbsp;Islamic&nbsp;lands&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;post-Mongol and pre-Safavid period, namely,&nbsp;the&nbsp;non-sectarian veneration&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;family&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Prophet Muhammad, and its narrative provides unusually rich details about&nbsp;the&nbsp;pilgrim’s&nbsp;objectives&nbsp;in&nbsp;commissioning it. Given&nbsp;the&nbsp;rarity&nbsp;of&nbsp;this document and&nbsp;the&nbsp;lack&nbsp;of&nbsp;any scholarly study&nbsp;of&nbsp;it, two&nbsp;art&nbsp;historians and one conservation scientist here present an&nbsp;in-depth analysis&nbsp;of&nbsp;its materials, techniques&nbsp;of&nbsp;production, format, form, topographic representations, and calligraphy.&nbsp;The&nbsp;scroll&nbsp;is also considered vis-à-vis comparative materials, which are admittedly scant&nbsp;in&nbsp;number.</p>
Sayyid Yusuf’s 1433 Pilgrimage Scroll (Ziyārātnāma) in the Collection of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
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journal article
Year
2016

A pilgrimage scroll (ziyārātnāma) dated 1433 in the name of Sayyid Yusuf b. Sayyid Shihab al-Din Ma Waraʾ al-Nahri records an ʿumra to Mecca and visits (ziyārāt) to Medina, Jerusalem, Hebron, Najaf, and Karbala. This document reflects a common phenomenon in the central Islamic lands of the post-Mongol and pre-Safavid period, namely, the non-sectarian veneration of the family of the Prophet Muhammad, and its narrative provides unusually rich details about the pilgrim’s objectives in commissioning it. Given the rarity of this document and the lack of any scholarly study of it, two art historians and one conservation scientist here present an in-depth analysis of its materials, techniques of production, format, form, topographic representations, and calligraphy. The scroll is also considered vis-à-vis comparative materials, which are admittedly scant in number.

Citation

Chekhab-Abudaya, Mounia, Amelie Couvrat Desvergnes, and David J. Roxburgh. "Sayyid Yusuf’s 1433 Pilgrimage Scroll (Ziyārātnāma) in the Collection of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha." Muqarnas: An Annual On The Visual Cultures Of The Islamic World 33 (2016): 345-407.

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David Roxburgh; Mounia Abudaya; Amélie Desvergnes

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