Rasulid rosette
The Rasulid rosette is a coat of arms of the Rasulids , an important Turkish dynasty in Yemen (1228-1455). It represents a stylized rose with five petals framed by a double circle.
Even before the Rasulids took the rosette as their coat of arms, there were rosettes as a decorative element on Ayyubid and northern Iraqi metalwork, as well as on Mamluk coins and architectural elements. The only question that remained unclear was whether the Rasulid rosette always had to be five-leaved, because six-leaved formations also exist. Evidence that the rosette had heraldic authority could be provided, but not about the number of leaves:
" It is recorded that the emblem of the Yemeni sultan is a red flower on a white background "
" I myself saw the Yemeni flag that it was planted on the hill Arafāt in 738 H (corresponds to 1337 AD), it is white with many red flowers "
However, it is also known that the six-petalled rosette was the coat of arms of the Mamluk sultan al-Nāsir Muhammad bin Qalāwūn and his successors and could possibly have expressed the Mamluk supremacy over the Rasulids.
Rasulid rosettes (five petals) are found in Rasulid architecture on the ceilings of the three mosques of Taizz : the Mutabiyyah , the Muzaffariyyah and the Ashrafiyyah . The reason is mostly red here. In Zabid there is probably a late Rasulid mosque in which the rosette appears in medallions on a white background. Numerous glass bottles and bowls show the rosette, as well as some metal pompous vessels. Towards the end of the Rasulid era, the rosette lost its coat of arms and became a purely decorative element in the subsequent period of the Yemeni Tahirid rule.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Venetia Porter The Art of the Rasulids p. 231
literature
- Venetia Porter: The Art of the Rasulids. In: Werner Daum (Ed.): Yemen . Umschau-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1988, pp. 225-236, ISBN 3-7016-2251-5