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    Gandhara Art in Humboldt Forum: Life of Lord Buddha

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    Jewish Heroes Square in Krakow, Poland

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    Block no. 4 in Auschwitz concentration camp

    Ottoman tent in Princess Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland

    Ottoman tent in Princess Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland

    The Steam Engine Building, Potsdam, Germany

    The Steam Engine Building, Potsdam, Germany

    Assyrian human-headed winged bull from Nimrud; 9th cent. BCE; Pergamon Museum, Berlin

    Assyrian human-headed winged bull from Nimrud; 9th cent. BCE; Pergamon Museum, Berlin

    Catacombs in St Peter’s Abbey Salzburg, Austria

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    St Nicholas Church in #Leipzeg, #Germany

    St Nicholas Church in #Leipzeg, #Germany

    Gloriette, Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna,Austria

    Gloriette, Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna,Austria

    Matthias Church on Buda Castle Hill, Budapest

    Matthias Church on Buda Castle Hill, Budapest

    The Neptune fountain in Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria

    The Neptune fountain in Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria

    The Dohany Street synagogue in Budapest

    St Peter’s Abbey Church in Salzburg, Austria

    St Peter’s Abbey Church in Salzburg, Austria

    The Residence Fountain in Salzburg: Oundof Music

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    Sultana Daku and Raj Bhawan of Nainital

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    Sultana Daku and Raj Bhawan of Nainital

    Jahan koshan cannon, Murshidabad

    Jahan koshan cannon, Murshidabad

    Takht-e Marar, Golestan Palance, Teheran, Iran

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      Block no. 4 in Auschwitz concentration camp

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      Ottoman tent in Princess Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland

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      The Steam Engine Building, Potsdam, Germany

      The Steam Engine Building, Potsdam, Germany

      Assyrian human-headed winged bull from Nimrud; 9th cent. BCE; Pergamon Museum, Berlin

      Assyrian human-headed winged bull from Nimrud; 9th cent. BCE; Pergamon Museum, Berlin

      Catacombs in St Peter’s Abbey Salzburg, Austria

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      St Nicholas Church in #Leipzeg, #Germany

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      Gloriette, Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna,Austria

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      Matthias Church on Buda Castle Hill, Budapest

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      The Neptune fountain in Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria

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      Sultana Daku and Raj Bhawan of Nainital

      Jahan koshan cannon, Murshidabad

      Jahan koshan cannon, Murshidabad

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      Huqqah in Mughal India

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      A hookah (Persian: قلیان; Hindustani: हुक़्क़ा (Devanagari) حقّہ (Nastaleeq), ḥuqqah, hukkā, Hukić ‒ also known as a waterpipe, narghile, arghila, qalyān, shisha, or by other names) is a single or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco called shisha in which the vapor or smoke is passed through a water basin ‒ often glass-based ‒ before inhalation.
      The origin of the waterpipe is from the time of the Safavid dynasty in the Persian empire which extended into India to where it also spread during that time. The hookah or Argyleh soon reached Egypt and the Levant during the Ottoman dynasty where it became very popular and where the mechanism was later perfected. The word hookah is a derivative of “huqqa”, an Arabic term According to Cyril Elgood (PP.41, 110) it was in India where the physician Hakim Abu’l-Fatḥ Gīlānī (d. 1588), at the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar I (1542 – 1605 AD) invented the idea.Following the Portugese/European introduction of tobacco to India, Hakim Abul Fateh Gilani came from Gilan, a province in the north of Iran, to India. He later became a physician in the court of Mughal and raised concerns after smoking tobacco became popular among Indian noblemen. He subsequently envisaged a system which allowed smoke to be passed through water in order to be ‘purified’.Gilani introduced the ḡalyān after Asad Beg, the ambassador of Bijapur, encouraged Akbar to take up smoking. Following popularity among noblemen, this new device for smoking soon became a status symbol for the Indian aristocracy and gentry.
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      The emperor Akbar’s emissary, Asad Beg, Bijapur wrote of his visit: ‘In Bijapur I found some tobacco. Never having seen the like in India, I brought some with me and prepared a handsome pipe of jewelled work’ which he presented to Akbar. He reported that merchants began to sell tobacco, so the habit of smoking quickly spread. Jahangir banned smoking in 1618; but five years later Surat began exporting tobacco.
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      Jahangir’s Jade hookah, National Museum, New Delhi.
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      Mumtaz Mahal, consort of Shah Jahan, seated in an interior smoking a hookah, an attendant with a morchal standing behind her Company School, Delhi, circa 1860
      Bahadur Shah seems to have been particularly fond of huqqah.
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      In his last days in Rangoon, no longer an Emperor but a commoner

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      Emperor Muhammad Shah with four courtiers, smoking huqqah, ca. 1730,
      Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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      Empress Qudsia Begum earlier Udham Bai entertained
      Artist: Mir Miran (1742)
      San Diego Museum of Art

      “Enjoyment of women” book translated into Persian from Indian text
      Some images of women enjoying Huqqah in the medieval age
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      Some unique huqqahs and their base
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      A silver and copper huqqah from 1800s
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      Large Bell-shaped Silver-Inlaid Bidri Hookah Base
      Bidar, Deccan, India
      19th century
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      Silver Hookah with Fine, Woven Pipe
      India
      19th century
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      Huqqa Base
      India, Mughal, c. 1700 -1750
      Clear glass with gilding over shaped appliqué glass pieces& blue glass insets
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      Huqqa Base
      India (Bidar), Mughal, 18th century
      Nephrite jade with semi precious stones set in gold

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