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العربية: صورة تبين رسمة توضيحية لشكل الكون حسب ما وصفه القزويني في كتابه "عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات" الكون يظهر بشكل جرم قرصي يمثل الأرض يقبض عليه ملاك من المشرق والمغرب، ويقف الملاك على صخرة كبيرة من الزبرجد الأخضر على سنام ثور يسمى "كيوثان" على ظهر حوت يقال له "بهموت".
English: "God created an angel who took [the earth] on his shoulders, and grasped it with his hands; the angel had as his support a rectangular rock of green hyacinth, itself borne upon a giant bull which rests upon a fish swimming in the water" (paraphrase of Qazwini i, 146, by Streck).[1]
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Source Ramaswamy, Sumathi. Going Global in Mughal India 73. Duke University.; album; pdf text, which attributes image to figure 79 in: Berlekamp, Persis (2011) Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam. Yale University Press.)
Author Al Qazwini
Turkish translation of ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt (The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Al Qazwini; translated by Surüri
Title
Turkish translation of ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt (The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence)
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date circa 1595
date QS:P571,+1595-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium Gouache on paper
Dimensions 25.0 x 17.0 cm
institution QS:P195,Q170495
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MSSA A 3632, folio 131a
Inscriptions Margin: "Depiction of the strata[?] of the earth and its holder" (tr. Brett Wilson); Bottom: "Section five: On the climes spanning the earth. Know that they divided the inhabited quarter in seven sections. They called each section a clime. It is as if a carpet were rolled out from east to west. The length of these seven climes from the east to the west and its width [...]"
Source/Photographer Ramaswamy (op. cit.)

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  1. Streck, Maximilian (1936), “Ḳāf”, in The Encyclopaedia of Islām[1], volume IV, E. J. Brill ltd., page 615

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