Brilliant Objects Collection
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Regions as connected workshops, routes, and communities.
The regional atlas does not freeze objects inside modern national borders. It presents historical regions, cities, trade routes, pilgrimage routes, court centers, workshop migrations, and later museum collecting routes.
Eight Regional Zones
Arabia, Yemen and the Early Caliphates
Hijaz · Rasulid Yemen · Red Sea
Syria, Palestine, Iraq and the Jazira
Mosul · Damascus · Baghdad · Aleppo
Egypt and the Mamluk Mediterranean
Cairo · Fustat · Mamluk Syria
Iran, Khurasan, Central Asia and Afghanistan
Nishapur · Herat · Isfahan · Samarqand
Anatolia, Ottoman Turkey and the Balkans
Istanbul · Konya · Bursa
Al-Andalus, Sicily, North Africa and the Maghrib
Cordoba · Fez · Tunis · Palermo
South Asia: Deccan, Mughal, Bidri and Kashmir
Bidar · Delhi · Kashmir · Hyderabad
Indian Ocean, East Africa, Southeast Asia and Diasporas
Swahili Coast · Gujarat · Aceh · Malay Peninsula
Attribution Caution
Regional pages distinguish: made in, attributed to, found in, collected in, and currently housed in. A basin made in Cairo might use forms associated with Syria, motifs circulating through Mongol-period exchange, and later European or Ottoman histories of collection.
