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Mansa Musa's Hajj

This artwork depicts Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire, with his caravan going from Cairo to Mecca on his Hajj, which is a Muslim pilgrimage to the…

Arab is not Muslim

This item contextualizes the term and item "Umma", a community of believers, and draws inspiration from the article by Scott Reese: "Islam in Africa /…

While the Bedouin poets showed the emotional vulnerability of men in some cases, the treatment of enslaved women, or jawaris, displays an err of…

A Rawi is an oral storyteller with an incredible memory that memorizes the “contours” of a verbal artwork and recites the poems of individual authors.…

Reverence for the word: The Qalam

The Qalam is specifically designed with a certain thickness, porousness for ink, and chisel made to be an extension of the calligrapher's hand.…

Coin made by Mahmud of Ghazna during Governorship of Nishapur

In 997 CE, or 387 H, a Turkish General in command of a Samanid-controlled portion of present-day Afghanistan named Sebuktekin died and gave power over…

Establishment of Abbasid, and Baghdad as capital

This map shows the sprawl of the Abbasid Empire, which was the Islamic Empire regime from 750 to 1258 CE, or 133 to 656 H. After a century and a half…

Directions to Jerusalem, Abd-al Malik Period

This limestone tablet reads “has ordered the construction of this road and the erection of the milestones the servant of God Abd- al-Malik...from here…

Arabic China found in Indonesia

"Dishes like this, finely decorated with Arabic inscriptions, are commonly found in Indonesia and are thought to have been ordered from China by the…