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Garment
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah
About Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait City
Hegira probably 8th century / AD probably 15th century
LNS 114 T
Sultanate
India
Talismanic shirt with decorative roundels, escutcheons and a cartouche filled with pious inscriptions in naskhi and attenuated thuluth, square compartments with the complete text of the Qur´an, and borders with the ninety-nine "Beautiful Names" (al-Asma´ al-Husna) of God.
"Garment" in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;kw;Mus21;18;en
MWNF Working Number: KW 18
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