A BLACK KAABA KISWAH TEXTILE FRAGMENT, CIRCA 1930

A fragment of the inner curtain of sacred kiswa for the inner wall of the Kabaa with an inscribed weave in silver-colored silk over a dark black ground. Embellished with undulating bands running from the beginning to the end of the cloth enclosing different inscriptions. The inscriptions: -The prominent inscription of 'Takbir, Allahu akbar'. -Kalimaat al-Tawhid, 'There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Prophet'. -‘I gratefully declare and believe Allah to be devoid of any deficiencies, I declare and believe the Omnipotent Allah is free of every defect’.

107 by 126 cm.