Tamgha
Filiz Çakır Phillip
Related Terms:
- Khil‘a (robe of honor)
- Mighfar (helmet)
- Talisman (object ascribed with religious and/or magical powers)
- Tughra (sultanic monogram)
Worksheet:
A worksheet for this video is available here.
Also visit the Khamseen Worksheets page here.
Related Khamseen Video:
Filiz Çakır Phillip, “The History of the Blazon in the Mamluk Period,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published XX January 2024.
References:
Çakır Phillip, Filiz. Iranische Hieb-, Stich- und Schutzwaffen des 15. – 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Sammlungen des Museums für Islamische Kunst der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin und des Deutschen Historischen Museums (Zeughaus) in Berlin. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
Kadoi, Yuka. “Çintamani: Notes on the Formation of the Turco-Iranian style,” Persica 21 (2007), 33–49.
Kadoi, Yuka. “On the Timurid Flag,” in Beiträge zur islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, Band 2, ed. Ritter Markus and Lorenz Korn, 143–62. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2010.
Kâşgarlı, Mahmud. Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk, ed. Besim Atalay. Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, 2006.
Leiser, G. “Tamg̲h̲a,” in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, ed. P. Bearman et al. Consulted online on 29 September 2023.
Nickel, Helmut. “Tamgas and Runes, Magic Numbers and Magic Symbols,” Metropolitan Museum Journal 8 (1973), 165–173.
Pyhrr, Stuart. “European Armor from the Imperial Ottoman Arsenal,” Metropolitan Museum Journal 24 (1989), 85–116.
Yazıcızâde, ‘Alî. Selçuk-nâme, İndeksli Tıpkıbasım, ed. Abdullah Bakır. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları, 2014.
Citation:
Filiz Çakır Phillip, “Tamgha,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 16 January 2024.
Filiz Çakır Phillip holds a Dr. Phil. from the Institute of Art History at Freie Universität Berlin and is an independent curator and scholar of Islamic Art History. She worked as curator at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (2013-2022) and at the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin (2006-2012). She has curated numerous exhibitions, most recently: Lustre and Luxe from Islamic Spain: Liquid Frontiers and Entangled Worlds (2023) and Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads (2021–2023) with Prof. Suzanne Conklin Akbari. She has authored several books, including Syrian Living: Medieval to Modern (2022) with Dr. Anke Scharrahs. Çakır Phillip also serves as a member of the Professional Development Committee of the Renaissance Society of America and as a board member of the Association of Art Museum Curators & AAMC Foundation in New York.