Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper lined with gauze, names in each family branch incorporated into roundels outlined in gold, outer borders with two bands decorated with stylised flowerheads and serrated leaves, one illuminated headpiece followed by the Shahadah written in bold thuluth and decorative kufic script and the bismallah written in bold and elegant thuluth, short tears to edges, some waterstaining restricted to outer borders, otherwise in good condition
6 m. 88 cm. x 48 cm.

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A similar scroll, ascribed to central Asia, 19th Century, and produced for members of the Afaqiyyah Naqshbandiyya order of sufis, is in the collection of the Louvre Museum. See also an example in a forthcoming sale at Artcurial, Paris, 25th March 2014, lot 97.

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A large and elaborate genealogy of the Prophet Muhammad in scroll form, starting with Adam and ending with the Maulawis and Khawajas, after an original by Isma'il Bukhari Central Asia or North India, 19th Century

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