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Site: Palenque, pg 10
Schele Number: 150
Description: panel from temple xiv, with enlarged details of captions surrounding figures. k'inich kan b'alam ii, wearing giii attributes, dances on a register marked with water iconography. the kneeling female is probably lady tz'akb'u ajaw, kan b'alam ii's mother; she offers a k'awiil manikin.
Dilapidated chaukhandi tombs in the necropolis of the Jats, in Sindh, Pakistan TOMBSTONES OF FALLEN HEROES by ZULFIQAR ALI KALHORO
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Schele # 83003
Ballcourt, Upper Temple of the Jaguars, detail sculpted frieze
See Also: Schele Drawings for "Chichen Itza"
Fatimid coinage comes from the Fatimid Caliphate, an Isma'ili Shi'a empire that ruled large parts of North Africa, western Arabia, and the Levant, first from Tunisia (Ifriqiya) and then from Egypt. The coinage was minted after the typical pattern of Islamic coinage. The Fatimids were particularly known for the consistently high quality of their gold dinars. Fatimid coinage included Shi'a formulas and a distinctive look, with concentric inscribed bands...
al-Mu'izz introduced explicitly Shi'a formulas proclaiming Isma'ili doctrine: the obverse side included praise to Ali as "heir (wasi) of the Prophet and the most excellent deputy and husband of the Radiant Pure One (i.e. Fatima)", while the reverse declared al-Mu'izz's and his ancestors' claims to the imamate as the "Revifier of the Sunna of Muhammad, the lord of those sent [by God], and the inheritor of the glory of the Rightly Guiding Imams".
The deliberately polemic formula about Ali was dropped in AH 343 (954/5 CE), and replaced with the more moderate "Ali is the most excellent of the heirs and is the deputy (wazir) of the best of those sent [by God]".
A South Korean postage stamp in 1956 (Dangi 4289)
Coronation of David, as depicted in the Paris Psalter.
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