About the Cover Illustration

The figure on the cover of PowerShell in Practice is a “Mufti, the chief of religion,” or the chief scholar who interpreted the religious law and whose pronouncements on matters both large and small were binding to the faithful. The same figure appears in full-length on the cover of PowerShell in Action, Second Edition by Bruce Payette.

The illustration is taken from a collection of costumes of the Ottoman Empire published on January 1, 1802, by William Miller of Old Bond Street, London. The title page is missing from the collection and we have been unable to track it down to date. The book’s table of contents identifies the figures in both English and French, and each illustration bears the names of two artists ...

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