Tiraz Textile Fragment with Inscriptions with Name of Caliph al-Muti'

The large, woven inscription in black on this undyed plain linen textile includes part of the Muslim profession of faith: “In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.” The strikingly bold, unadorned Kufic script of this fragment is characteristic of the pre-Fatimid period in Egypt during the second half of the tenth century and contains the name of the ^cAbbasid caliph al-Muti‘, who ruled from 946 to 974.