Folio from Mu'nis al-Ahrar

مؤنس الأحرار

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtlet; Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 19.68.1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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A page illustrated from Munis al-Ahrar fi Daqa'iq al-Ash'ar, dated 741 AH / 1340–1341 CE. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1

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Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Kubachi ware· Mahmal

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  1. Metropolitan Museum Open Access
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islam.museum contributors. “Folio from Mu'nis al-Ahrar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/munis-ahrar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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