scroll

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

The scroll is part of a tradition that involves preparing the document before the actual pilgrimage. As noted by Juvin (Note 76), such scrolls were often 'prepared before the pilgrimage and then completed with the name of the performer of the hajj and the legal witnesses' (p. 405). This implies a multi-stage production process involving specialized calligraphers and legal authorities.

Evidence

"the artistic traditions seen in the fifteenth-century scrolls in Doha and London are linked to pilgrimage scrolls"

Remarks

The scroll format was a persistent tradition for pilgrimage certificates (ziyārātnāma) from the medieval through the early modern period. Note 79 highlights that the practice of making scrolls, especially printed ones, sharply declined during the Mamluk era but the fifteenth-century examples (like the Sayyid Yusuf scroll) share conceptual and artistic traits across a broad geographic range from Damascus to the Timurid realms (p. 405).