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Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq, perhaps the most un-prejudiced and curious traveller of his era, once wrote a sentence that contains some truth:[1]
Our rags appear to them no less strange than theirs appear to us.
— Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq, Letters from Turkey, 1595
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- Islamic culture: Oriental rug - Anatolian rug - Persian carpet - Bergama carpet - Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting - Germanisches Nationalmuseum - Confronted animals - Medicine in the medieval Islamic world - Islamic architecture - Ulama
- Other areas of interest: White Rose - Stolperstein
When browsing through articles which are related to my focus of interest, I enjoy adding relevant references or correcting minor mistakes, when appropriate, as a token of respect and in order to thank other editors for their great contributions.
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DOBAG Carpet Initiative - Kurt Erdmann - Transylvanian rugs - Early Anatolian Animal carpets - Oriental Carpet Manufacturers - Lazy line
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- ^ Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq (1595). "Legationis Turcicae Epistolae quatuor. Epistola prima". p. 77.
Illi nostram vestiendi rationem non minus mirabantur quam nos illorum.
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