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Ottoman and Islamic Portraits

Historical portraits and engravings of significant figures from the Ottoman Empire and Islamic culture, featuring elaborate attire and cultural motifs.

Moulay Sharif Abd-er-Rahman, sultan of Morocco by Artist Unknown (From L'Afrique L'Empire De Maroc by P. Christian), 1846, USA, Chicago, Newberry Library
Moulay Sharif Abd-er-Rahman, sultan of Morocco by Artist Unknown (From L'Afrique L'Empire De Maroc by P. Christian), 1846, USA, Chicago, Newberry Library
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Portrait of priest Vintage portrait circa 1911 christian priest. ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released Copyright: xZoonar.com/mikle15x 3031482 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released
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Hussein III., Dey of Algier.
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Tippu Tip or Tib (1837 - June 14, 1905), real name Hamad bin Muḥammad bin Jumah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Saīd al-Murghabī, (Arabic: حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي‎), was a Swahili-Zanzibari trader. He was famously known by the natives of East Africa as Tippu Tib after the sounds that his many guns made. A notorious slave trader, plantation owner and governor, who worked for a succession of sultans of Zanzibar, he led many trading expeditions into Central Africa, involving the slave trade and ivory trade. He constructed profitable trading posts that reached deep into Central Africa. He built himself a trading empire that he then translated into clove plantations on Zanzibar. Abdul Sheriff reported that when he left for his twelve years of empire building on the mainland, he had no plantations of his own. However, by 1895, he had acquired 'seven shambas [plantations and 10,000 slaves'. His mother, Bint Habib bin Bushir, was a Muscat Arab of the ruling class. His f
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Dignataries of the Greek Church, Athens , Bishops. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection
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Ramon Berenguer IV The Saint (1113-1162). Count of Barcelona. Lithography, detail. Later colouration. Cronica General de Espa-a, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Catalonia. 1866.
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Saint Luke, Page of a Gospel found in Damascus, Arabic manuscript, 18th Century.
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Guru Nanak (1469-1539); Birmingham; founder of modern Sikhism. His teachings and those of the 9 succeeding Gurus are collected together in the Adi Granath; the Holy book of Sikhism.
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Africa, Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, Lion of the tribe of Judah, King of Ethiopia, 1920-30.
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Baltasar, one of the three wise men. Ceramic figure isolated on white background
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Eugen Iwanowics, Greek Orthodox Bishop of Karlsstadt, c. 1840, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Chambarango, Chief of Uganda, Africa, from the Savage and Semi-Barbarous Chiefs and Rulers series (N189) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co. 1888 Issued by William S. Kimball & Company Trade cards from the "Savage and Semi-Barbarous Chiefs and Rulers" series (N189), issued in an unnumbered set of 50 cards in 1888 by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.. Chambarango, Chief of Uganda, Africa, from the Savage and Semi-Barbarous Chiefs and Rulers series (N189) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by William S. Kimball & Company
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The Maraja of Kapurtala, around 1900.
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Ghalib ( 1797 1869), was the preeminent Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire.
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Salah ad Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub Saladin 1137, 1193AD Sultan of Egypt and Syria Muslim political and military leader from the book Crabbs Historical Dictionary from 1825, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Atilla (c406-453) Khan of the Huns, known as 'The Scourge of God'. Representation from 19th century chromolithograph
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Vidyapati (1352 1448), also known by the sobriquet Maithil Kavi Kokil (the poet cuckoo of Maithili) was a Maithili poet and a Sanskrit writer.
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Rabbi Shlomo, reading the Torah, seated in his home. 1934, Israel
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Menelik II GCB, GCMG, Dagmäwi Menelik, baptised as Sahle Maryam, 17 August 1844, 12 December 1913, was Emperor of Ethiopia, digitally restored reprodu...
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Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria.
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Iran, Isfahan, Jameh Mosque, Details of the Decorations in the Courtyard with Ayatollah Kamanei
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E v ramasamy, postage stamps, india, asia Copyright: xAnilxDave/DinodiaxPhotox