Saraquj Explained
The sarāqūj was a type of conical hat with a brimmed base, worn by Central Asian men during the time of Turkic rule in the Middle-East and Central Asia in the 12th-14th centuries CE. It was usually white or cream-colored. It could be decorated with crisscrossed colored takhfīfa, set in place with a brooch or plaquette.[1]
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- Book: Yedida Kalfon Stillman, Norman A. Stillman. Arab Dress: A Short History : from the Dawn of Islam to Modern Times. 2003. Brill. Leiden, Netherlands. 68, Fig.19. 9789004113732. Fig.19: Frontispiece of a mid-13th-century manuscript, probably from Mosul of the Kitāb al-Diryāq of Pseudo-Galen showing an informal court scene in the center with a seated Turkish ruler (on left) wearing a fur-trimmed, patterned qabā' maftūḥ, with elbow-length tirāz sleeves and on his head a sharbush. Most of his attendants wear aqbiya turkiyya and kalawta caps. Workman depicted behind the palace and riders in the lower register wear the brimmed hat with conical crown known as sarāqūj. On the sarāqūj of one workman is a crisscrossed colored takhfīfa with a brooch or plaquette pinned in the center of the overlap. The women on camels in the lower righthand corner wear a sac-like head veil kept in place by a cloth `iṣāba (Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, ms A. F. 10, fol. 1)..
