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Rembrandt's depiction of a Mogul miniature, which according to Schimmel illustrates the founders of the four great Sufi orders (in the Indo-Persian region). Most probably these are the Qadiri, Suhrawardi, Chishti, and Naqshbandi orders. This scan was made from the copy in
Annemarie
Schimmel's Mystical
Dimensions of Islam,(Chapel Hill,
University
of North Carolina
Press, 1975, p.233, which was photographed from Rembrandt's original, now held in the collection of
the British Museum.
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