[[File:Book of Antidotes of Pseudo-Gallen. Scenes of the royal court. Probably northern Iraq (Mosul). Mid 13th century (Turkoman soldiers detail).jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Turkoman soldiers (detail), wearing the ''sarāqūj'' for a game of polo. ''Kitāb al-Diryāq'' ("Book of Antidotes of Pseudo-Galen"). Probably northern Iraq (Mosul). Mid 13th century.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ettinghausen |first1=Richard |title=Arab painting |date=1977 |publisher=New York : Rizzoli |isbn=978-0-8478-0081-0 |pages=91, 92, 162 commentary |url=https://archive.org/details/arabpainting0000etti/page/91/mode/2up |quote=In the painting the facial cast of these Turks is obviously reflected, and so are the special fashions and accoutrements they favored. (p.162, commentary on image p.91)}}</ref>]]
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.<ref name="YKS">{{cite book|last=Yedida Kalfon Stillman, Norman A. Stillman|title=Arab Dress: A Short History : from the Dawn of Islam to Modern Times|year=2003|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden, Netherlands|page=68, Fig.19|isbn=9789004113732|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1MLfAAAAMAAJ |quote=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).}}</ref>
thumb|center|upright=2|Workers wearing the ''Saraquj''. Probably northern Iraq (Mosul). Mid 13th century
==See also== * Sharbush * List of hat styles
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Category:Middle Eastern clothing Category:History of Asian clothing Category:Turkish clothing