This document is a tughra, the official signature of the ruler of the Ottoman Empire - Suleiman the Magnifcent. This example would have been placed at the beginning of a state document to guarantee ...

KARACHI: Fashion designer Shamaeel Ansari’s Tughra collection is now being stocked at multi-designer store Labels. Tughra means ‘Royal Seal’ in Persian. The collection consists of three volumes: ...

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Welcome to part three of this history of the world through objects, which we pick up between 1400 and 1500. As always, we're looking at 'things', that tell us about how societies organised themselves, ...

Shamaeel Ansari’s design ethos has always been entrenched in rich inspirations - Grecian drapes tussle with Japanese kimonos, hemlines rise and fall in silken folds, vibrant Polynesian flowers mingle ...

One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I. The tughra (insignia) of the 16th-century Ottoman emperor ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent (made between 1520 and 1566), from Turkey Welcome to part ...

THE PIECE: A Late Ottoman embroidered silk square, possibly a mirror cover, with central tughra, or imperial monogram, 20 by 20 inches. View full sizeThe central design of the textile is known as a ...

Tughra stamps : (first stamps of the Ottoman Empire issued 1863) / Mehmet Başran Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...