How did the Muslim elite utilise the Qurʾan as protection in life and death in the early modern world? This talk examines an example of a type of shirt that was made for the protection of its elite wearers in the early modern Islamic world. 

Figure 1. Talismanic shirt, fifteenth-sixteenth century. Cotton, ink and gold. Attributed to Northern India or Deccan. Metropolitan Museum. Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art, Gifts: 1998.199.

For an image of the talismanic shirt in the Victoria & Albert Museum discussed in the podcast, see: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O481040/talismanic-shirt-unknown/