The Deceased's Hair Colors On Dagestan Tombstones Of Derbend During The 12th18th Century

The spaces on the gravestone-zone are filled with an interlocking pattern of Arabic and Turkish inscriptions defined by rectangular bands to floral motifs, which are inscribed in looking with some pictorial icons much more elegant than earlier types.... More

The spaces on the gravestone-zone are filled with an interlocking pattern of Arabic and Turkish inscriptions defined by rectangular bands to floral motifs, which are inscribed in looking with some pictorial icons much more elegant than earlier types. References to some names of the Twelver Šīʿī Imāms of the Šīʿī sect are abbreviated in the context, with quotations from Qurʾān 55/26. Less