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Mushabe recognizes...
"The theme of falling in love by seeing pictures is a
very popular classical Islamic subject and is
elaborated in MY NAME IS RED. In the novel, I
explore this theme along with the prohibition of
portrait painting in Islam. A further elaboration of
this theme is this picture where Mushabe recognizes
the figure in the portrait" --Orhan Pamuk
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Click on an detail to view the entire illustration and read Orhan Pamuk's
accompanying text. All images can be found in the book The Topkapi Saray Museum: The Albums and Illustrated Manuscripts. Images reprinted with the written permission of the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul.
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