Rembrandt's depiction of a Mogul miniature, which according to Schimmel illustrates the founders of the four great Sufi orders (in the Indo-Persian region).  Most probably these are the Qadiri, Suhrawardi, Chishti, and Naqshbandi orders. 

This scan was made from the copy in Annemarie Schimmel's Mystical 
Dimensions of Islam,(Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina 
Press,
1975, p.233, which was photographed from Rembrandt's 
original, now held in the collection of the British Museum.
 

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