Keyword: Islam

Anonymous / Unknown

A mountain city with multistoried hill architecture. Outside the gates on the right is a Saivite shrine with a lingum covered by floral offerings to which a goat is led, probably for sacrifice. (17th)

from: Unidentified Hindu chronicle of a King

Metropolitan Museum, New York

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice GoatIndiaIslamMughalPaintings

Anonymous / Unknown

Abraham's Sacrifice (XVII)

Metropolitan Museum, New York

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAngelFireIranIsaacIshmaelIslamManuscriptPersiaRamSafavid

Anonymous / Unknown

Abraham's Sacrifice (1600?-1650?)

from: Mîr Hwând, Rawzat al-safâ (Le lieu de repos des Purs) [Suppl. Persan 1567, fol. 50v]

BNF

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacIranIslamManuscriptPersia

Anonymous / Unknown

Candrahasa sacrifices himself cutting off pieces of his own flesh and putting them on the fire [1598]

from: Razmnāmah by Abhinanda, India (The last volume of the Persian translation of the Mahābhārata commissioned in 990 by Akbar)

London, British Library, Or 12076 folio: 90v

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaIslamMughalPersiaSafavidSelf-Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

Emperor Jahangir and Prince Khurram at the gathering for the Feast of the Sacrifice (1615-1625)

from: India

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice IndiaIslamKingshipMughal

Anonymous / Unknown

Ibrahim Preparing to Sacrifice Isaac (17th)

from: Ishaq b. Ibrahim al-Nayshaburi, Qisas al-Anbiya (Tales of the Prophets), ms, fol. 43 Turkey

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Edwin Binney, 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums Object Number 1985.275.43

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacHuman SacrificesIslamManuscriptOttoman Empire

Anonymous / Unknown

from: Della Valle, Pietro, De volkome beschryving der voortreffelijke reizen van de deurluchtige reisiger Pietro della Valle, edelman van Romen, in veel voorname gewesten des werrelts, sedert het jaer 1615, tot in 't jaar 1626 gedaan. Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1666, vol. 1, pag. 128

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice CamelIranIslamPersia

Anonymous / Unknown

Satī. The bride immolates herself on the funeral pyre (1657)

from: Isfahan, Iran

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireGenderIndiaIranIslamPersiaSatīSatiSelf-SacrificeWomen

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1425]

from: Hafiz Abru, Majma` al-tavarikh, Sacrifice of Ismāʿīl, Walters Manuscript W.676Aa [from Istanbul]

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacHuman SacrificesIranIslamManuscript

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1581]

from: Ishâq al-Nishâpûrî, Histoire du Coran ou Histoires des prophètes et des rois du passé. Qesas al-anbiyâ [Persan 54, fol. 32v]

Paris, BnF, ms Persan 54 fol. 32v

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAngelHuman SacrificeIconographyIranIsaacIshmaelIslamKnifeManuscriptPersiaRamSacrifice ComparedSafavid

Anonymous / Unknown

Zacharias sawn in half in a tree (1570-1580)

from: Qazwin, Iran

Dallas Museum of Art (Keir Collection), Dallas K.1.2014.1166 (III.278) folio: 231r

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Human SacrificeIranIslamManuscriptMartyrdomPersiaSafavidZakarîyâ (Zacharias)

Delignon, Jean Louis

Goat and she-goat, turned to right, adorned for sacrifice (1626-1704)

from: Ohsson, Ignace Mouradja d', Tableau général de l'Empire othoman, Paris, Didot, 1787-1820, vol. 2

Wikimedia

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AntiquarianismGoatGoatsIslamOttoman EmpireTravelogues

Fazuli

Ibrahim about to sacrifice Ismail. Cebrail (Gabriel) stands nearby holding the ram. (Late 16th/Early 17th)

from: A miniature painting from a manuscript of Hadikat us-suada, a history of the holy martyrs of the Prophet's family [Ms Or. 12009, fol.19v]

British Library, London [from Turkey]

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacIranIslamPersia

Halab Shah ibn Isa

The Sacrifice of Isaac. A Christian citizen in Aleppo commissioned the painted panels of the walls of the entrance room in his house. Wood, multi-layered painting (1601-1603)

from: Aleppo

Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum Source: [https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;de;Mus01;39;en&pageD=N&cp]

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleChristianityIshmaelIslamMuslimsOttoman EmpireQur'an

Küsel, Melchior

Ignatius Fialho, missionary in the Maghul empire, surrounded by Muslims woth swords (1675)

from: Tanner, Mathias, Societas Iesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans, Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae in Collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem, Prague 1675, p. 342

Topics:
7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Christian MissionaryIndiaIslamJesuits (S.J.)Mughal

Muhammad `Ali Naqqash Mashhadi

Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The union of the couple on the pyre (1657)

from: Sūz u Gudāz ms, Iran, Walters Manuscript W. 649, fol. 19b (Burning and Melting)

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: FireGenderIndiaIranIslamManuscriptMughalPersiaSatīSatiSelf-SacrificeWomen

Muhammad `Ali Naqqash Mashhadi

the young Hindu woman accompanies her bridegroom's coffin to the funeral pyre and decides to commit sati (1657)

from: Walters manuscript W.649 (Burning and Melting)

The Walters Art Museum

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: FireIndiaIranIslamMughalPersiaSatīSatiSelf-SacrificeWomen

Riza-i-Abbasi, Aqa

Abraham's Sacrifice (1595)

from: Histoire du Coran ou Histoire des prophètes et des rois passés. Qisas al-anbiyyâ [Supplément Persan 1313, fol. 40]

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacIranIsaacIslamManuscriptPersiaQur'an

Smith, Robert]

The western and eastern churches represented by St. Peter's in Rome and S. Sophia in Istanbul (Constantinople); Jewish circumcision and the baptism of a baby by a bishop (1650-1799)

Wellcome Collection, London

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: BaptismcircumcisionIslamSacrifice Compared

Sun'i

The sacrifice of Isaac. The Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) surviving the furnace (above), and preparing to sacrifice his son Ism'il (below), from The Cream of Histories (Zubdat al-tawarikh) by Sayyid Luqman-i 'Ashuri (1585)

from: Sayyid Luqman-i Ashur, Zubdat al-tawarikh, Istanbul, Turkey

Sayyid Luqman-i Ashur, Zubdat al-tawarikh, detached folio, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacHuman SacrificesIsaacIslamManuscriptOttoman Empire

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A mountain city with multistoried hill architecture. Outside the gates on the right is a Saivite shrine with a lingum covered by floral offerings to which a goat is led, probably for sacrifice. (17th)

Abraham's Sacrifice (XVII)

Abraham's Sacrifice (1600?-1650?)

Candrahasa sacrifices himself cutting off pieces of his own flesh and putting them on the fire [1598]

Emperor Jahangir and Prince Khurram at the gathering for the Feast of the Sacrifice (1615-1625)

Ibrahim Preparing to Sacrifice Isaac (17th)

Sacrifice of the Camel (1666)

Satī. The bride immolates herself on the funeral pyre (1657)

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1425]

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1581]

Zacharias sawn in half in a tree (1570-1580)

Goat and she-goat, turned to right, adorned for sacrifice (1626-1704)

Ibrahim about to sacrifice Ismail. Cebrail (Gabriel) stands nearby holding the ram. (Late 16th/Early 17th)

The Sacrifice of Isaac. A Christian citizen in Aleppo commissioned the painted panels of the walls of the entrance room in his house. Wood, multi-layered painting (1601-1603)

Ignatius Fialho, missionary in the Maghul empire, surrounded by Muslims woth swords (1675)

Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The union of the couple on the pyre (1657)

the young Hindu woman accompanies her bridegroom's coffin to the funeral pyre and decides to commit sati (1657)

Abraham's Sacrifice (1595)

The western and eastern churches represented by St. Peter's in Rome and S. Sophia in Istanbul (Constantinople); Jewish circumcision and the baptism of a baby by a bishop (1650-1799)

The sacrifice of Isaac. The Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) surviving the furnace (above), and preparing to sacrifice his son Ism'il (below), from The Cream of Histories (Zubdat al-tawarikh) by Sayyid Luqman-i 'Ashuri (1585)