`Abbāsid Caliphs al-Manṣūr, Hārūn al-Rashīd and al-Ma’mūn, with rulers Būya and Aḥmad Sāmānī (verso), from the genealogy (silsilanāma), Cream of Histories (Zübdet-üt Tevarih)

Object no: T 423.22 Title: Portraits of `Abbāsid Caliphs al-Manṣūr, Hārūn al-Rashīd and al-Ma’mūn, with rulers Būya and Aḥmad Sāmānī (verso), from the genealogy (silsilanāma), Cream of Histories (Zübdet-üt Tevarih) Calligrapher and production place: Abū Ṭālib Iṣfahānī, Baghdad Production date: 1598 (1006H) Dimensions: 260 mm x 162 mm (height x width) Material: Paper (material) Pigment (material) Ink (material) Gold Language: Turkish (language) Script type: Naskh script Collection: Turkish collection Document type: Manuscript Object name: Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex) Description: Portraits of `Abbāsid Caliphs al-Manṣūr, Hārūn al-Rashīd and al-Ma’mūn, with rulers Būya and Aḥmad Sāmānī (verso), from the genealogy (silsilanāma), Cream of Histories (Zübdet-üt Tevarih). This portrait folio is from a book produced in Baghdad in 1598 (CBL T 423). The text and its family tree diagrams together provide a visual synopsis of universal history, presenting the Ottoman sultanate as its culmination. Here, the author lays out history as a genealogical tree with portrait medallions. This tree follows the sequence of Islam's prophets (starting with Adam, up to the Prophet Muḥammad), as well a