My Name Is Red

اسمي أحمر

Pamuk's historical novel of Ottoman miniaturists and a murder in the sultan's workshop — figural art at the centre of the mystery.

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199020002010

LiteratureImages and figural artArts of the book

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The Pisa Griffin· al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Arab naming of children after plants· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina· Salim ibn Umayr's mission to kill Abu Afak· Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi's mission to kill Asma' bint Marwan

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islam.museum contributors. “My Name Is Red”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/ismi-al-ahmar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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The Pisa Griffin

The great 11th-century Islamic bronze that crowned Pisa's cathedral for centuries — the largest Islamic bronze animal sculpture.