An illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Kamal al-Din Husayn Gazurgahi's Majalis al-'Ushshaq: a dervish takes Ibrahim ibn Adham's son to his father at the Ka'ba, Persia, Shiraz, Safavid, circa 1570
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October 23, 01:24 PM GMT
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ink, gold and gouache on paper, 4 lines above and 1 line below written in nasta'liq in black ink, within gold, black, red and blue rules, reverse with 14 lines to the page written in black nasta'liq, framed
painting: 16.7 by 13.4cm.
leaf: 23.1 by 15.4cm.
The Majalis al-‘Ushshaq (‘Assemblies of Sufi Lovers’) was compiled between 1503 and 1504 at the Timurid court of Sultan Husayn at Herat (r.1469-1506). The text deals with crossing the bridge of material love in order to attain ideal love through accounts of famous mystics, legendary lovers and royal princes, including Sultan Husayn himself (Uluç 2000, p.567). The present leaf depicts a dervish taking the son of Ibrahim ibn Adham, an eighth century ruler of Balkh, to meet his father at the Ka’ba.
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