The Mufti, Supreme Religious Leader
Also titled De moefti, hoofd van de religieuze zaken
Jean Baptiste Vanmour (Valenciennes, 1671–1737)
c. 1727 - c. 1730
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 34 cm x width 26 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
A mufti is an Islamic ecclesiastical legal authority. The mufti of Istanbul, called the şeyhülislam, was the highest-ranking religious functionary in the Ottoman Empire. He, the grand vizier and the sultan were the three most important rulers. The şeyhülislam had to ensure that the policy of the sultan and his grand vizier did not violate the sharia or holy law of Islam.
