'Dancing Dervishes', Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, recto: ca. 1610; verso: ca. 1530–50, Attributed to India, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 15 3/16 in. (38.6 cm), Codices, The 'Emperor’s Album,' to which this folio belongs, was made for Emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan, and is considered one of the world’s great assemblages of Mughal calligraphy and painting. On the recto, dervishes engage in the sufi ceremony known as the sama, where whirling and dancing is inspired by music and recitations of poetry
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