Keywords

• treatise on mechanical devices,
• banu musa ibn shakir,
• egypt,
• syria,
• second half of the 13th century,
• ink,
• pigment on paper,
• arts,
• arab,
• arabic,
• arabesque,
• islam,
• islamic,
• doha,
• qatar,
• gcc,
• middle east,
• the gulf area,
• qatar museums authority (qma),
• the museum of islamic art,
• treatise,
• mechanical,
• devices,
• banu,
• musa,
• ibn,
• shakir,
• second,
• half,
• 13th,
• century,
• pigment,
• paper,
• middle,
• east,
• gulf,
• area,
• museums,
• authority,
• (qma),
• museum,
• art,
• mia,
• collections,