AN OTTOMAN GREEN KAABA KISWA TEXTILE, 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Silk Textile: 206 by 128 cm.
The dark green silk ground woven with chevron bands of alternating widths containing light green inscriptions and in between 'Allah and Muhammad' woven in a cream-color, mounted on a stretcher.

Inscriptions
In the wide band with two words, repeat of: ‘God’ and ‘Muhammad’
In the wide band: The shahadah
In the narrow bands, upper: Quran chapter XXXIII (al-ahhzab), verse 56.
In the narrow bands, lower: ‘May Mighty God be satisfied with Abu Bakr, ‘Umar, ‘Uthman, ‘Ali and the Companions, all of them’