A black piece of Sitar of 81 by 35 cm. This item is not old, but it is beautiful and can be a nice piece of meaningful decoration.
Product Code: 15325
A sitara or sitarah (Arabic: سِتَارَة [si.taː.ra] is an ornamental curtain used in the sacred sites of Islam. A sitara forms part of the kiswah: the cloth covering of the Kaaba in Mecca. Another sitara adorns the Prophet's Tomb in the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi mosque in Medina. These textiles bear embroidered inscriptions of verses from the Quran and other significant texts. Sitaras have been created annually since the 16th century as part of a set of textiles sent to Mecca. The tradition is that the textiles are provided by the ruler responsible for the holy sites. In different eras, this has meant the Mamluk Sultans, the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, and presently the rulers of Saudi Arabia. The construction of the sitaras is both an act of religious devotion and a demonstration of the wealth of the rulers who commission them.
The earliest recorded sitara was made in Egypt in 1544, during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent.
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