This item has been added to the Database within the Explore Islamic Art Collections project. Information is available in: English, Arabic.

Name of Object:

Pilgrimage certificate

Location:

Doha, Qatar

Holding Museum:

Museum of Islamic Art

About Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Date of Object:

Dated Hegira 21 Muharram 837 / AD 6 September 1433

Museum Inventory Number:

MS.267.1998

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Opaque Watercolour, Gold, Paper, Ink

Dimensions:

Height: 666.5cm, Width: 34.7cm

Period / Dynasty:

Timurid or Qara Qoyunlu

Provenance:

Central Asia or Iraq

Description:

This certificate, a ziyaratname, was made for a pilgrim named Sayyid Yusuf bin Sayyid Shihab al-Din Mawara al-Nahri who undertook the ‘umra. His name and title (sayyid) indicate he was a high member of a Sufi confederation of Transoxiana. Featuring the haram of Mecca, the Prophet’s mosque in Medina and the Dome of the Rock with the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, it is the unique Medieval example representing the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and the shrines of Ali and Husayn in Najaf and Karbala.

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Selected bibliography:

Chekhab-Abudaya, Mounia, “Travelling manuscripts”, in Siu Perdue and Tagliacozzo (eds), Asia Inside Out, vol. 3, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019: 146-178.
Chekhab-Abudaya, Mounia, Roxburgh, David, and Couvrat-Desvergnes, Amélie, “Sayyid Yusuf's 1433 Pilgrimage Scroll”, in Gülru Necipoğlu and Karen Learl (eds), Muqarnas 33, Leiden: Brill, 2016: 345-408.

Citation of this web page:

 "Pilgrimage certificate" in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;qt;Mus21;32;en

MWNF Working Number: QT 32