A LARGE OTTOMAN TALISMANIC SHIRT (JAMA) WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE QUR'AN AND PRAYERS, TURKEY 19th/20th Century cotton shirt (jama) covered with text written in a variety of scripts, including thuluth, and square Kufic, in assorted colours, arranged in numero panels, roundels, cartouches and lines, Footnotes:  A talisman shirt is an object that has protective powers. Designed and decorated with astrological signs, magic squares, abjad numerals, religio narratives, representations of the prophets in a variety of media, and Qur’anic inscriptions Length: 85 cm Width: 93 cm