#Habiballah of Sava

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A Stallion by Habiballah of Sava. 1601-1606 CE. Safavid Iran.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Painting by Habiballah of Sava, ~1600.

Attar, The Conference of the Birds, ~1177.

The birds must cross seven valleys in order to find Simorgh, who lives on the mountain Qaf: 1. Yearning / Quest (the Wayfarer casts aside all dogma, belief, and unbelief), 2. Love (reason is abandoned for the sake of love), 3. Gnosis / Insight into Mystery (worldly knowledge becomes utterly useless), 4. Detachment / Independence (all desires and attachments to the world are given up. Here, what is assumed to be 'reality' vanishes), 5. Unity (the Wayfarer realizes that everything is connected and that the Beloved is beyond everything, including harmony, multiplicity, and eternity), 6. Wonderment / Bewilderment (entranced by the beauty of the Beloved, the Wayfarer becomes perplexed and, steeped in awe, finds that he has never known or understood anything), 7. Poverty / Fulfilment in Annihilation (the self disappears into the universe and the Wayfarer becomes timeless, existing in both the past and the future).

«.... You came as thirty birds and therefore saw these selfsame thirty birds, not less nor more; If you had come as forty, fifty – here. An answering forty, fifty, would appear; Though you have struggled, wandered, travelled far, it is yourselves you see and what you are.' (Who sees the Lord? It is himself each sees; What ant's sight could discern the Pleiades? What anvil could be lifted by an ant? Or could a fly subdue an elephant?) 'How much you thought you knew and saw; but you now know that all you trusted was untrue. Though you traversed the Valleys' depths and fought with all the dangers that the journey brought, the journey was in Me, the deeds were Mine – You slept secure in Being's inmost shrine. And since you came as thirty birds, you see these thirty birds when you discover Me, the Simorgh, Truth's last flawless jewel, the light in which you will be lost to mortal sight, dispersed to nothingness until once more you find in Me the selves you were before.' Then, as they listened to the Simorgh's words, a trembling dissolution filled the birds – The substance of their being was undone, and they were lost like shade before the sun; Neither the pilgrims nor their guide remained. The Simorgh ceased to speak, and silence reigned. .... All shadows are made nothing in the one unchanging light of Truth's eternal sun' .... Those who can speak still wander far away from that dark truth they struggle to convey, and by analogies they try to show the forms men's partial knowledge cannot know. (But these are not the subject for my rhyme; They need another book, another time - And those who merit them will one day see this Nothingness and this Eternity; While you still travel in your worldly state, you cannot pass beyond this glorious gate.) .... You have no knowledge of what lies ahead; Think deeply, ponder, do not be misled .... Blindly they saw themselves and deaf they heard - But who can speak of this? I know if I betrayed my knowledge I would surely die; If it were lawful for me to relate such truths to those who have not reached this state, those gone before us would have made some sign; But no Sign comes, and silence must be mine. Here eloquence can find no jewel but one, that silence when the longed-for goal is won. The greatest orator would here be made in love with silence and forget his trade, and I too cease: I have described the Way - Now, you must act - there is no more to say.»

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Attar's The Concourse of the Birds, Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) ca. 1600

Painting by Habiballah of Sava.

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A Stallion. Habiballah of Sava. (ca. 1601 - 06).

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                   Title:                    "The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds)                

                   Artist:                    Painting by Habiballah of Sava (Iranian, active ca. 1590–1610)                

                   Author:                    Farid al-Din `Attar (Iranian, Nishapur ca. 1142–ca. 1220 Nishapur)                

                   Date:                    ca. 1600                

                   Geography:                    Attributed to Iran, Isfahan  

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451725            

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conference_of_the_Birds

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Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair, painted by Habiballah of Sava, Persia, 1600s

Met Museum New York

Provenance: Shah Abbas I, Isfahan, Iran (ca. 1600–1609; presented to Ardebil Shrine); Ardebil Shrine, Iran (ca. 1609–sack of Ardebil, 1826); M. Farid Parbanta(until 1963; sale, Sotheby's, London,December 9, 1963, no. 111, to MMA)

H. 13 in. (33 cm) W. 8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm)

The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (Persian: منطق الطیر‎, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177) is a celebrated literary masterpiece of Persian literature by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. 

In the poem, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be their sovereign, as they have none. The hoopoe, the wisest of them all, suggests that they should find the legendary Simorgh. 

[text source: @wikipedia] 

Check out:  translation by Edward FitzGerald from 1889

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Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

The illustration on this folio depicts a scene from a mystical poem, Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds), written by a twelfth-century Iranian, Farid al-Din ‘Attar. The birds, which symbolize individual souls in search of the simurgh (a mystical bird representing ultimate spiritual unity), are assembled in an idyllic landscape to begin their pilgrimage under the leadership of a hoopoe (perched on a rock at center right). The careful, harmonious composition is consistent with that of the late fifteenth-century Timurid miniatures also in the manuscript, but three factors indicate that this image is later: the presence of the hunter, who has no place in the narrative; his firearm, a weapon that gained currency in Iran after the mid-sixteenth century; and the signature of the late sixteenth- to early seventeenth-century artist Habiballah

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

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Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610)

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610) detail

  “The Concourse of the Birds”, Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair

(Language of the Birds)

Artist: Painting by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610)

Author: Farid al-Din `Attar (ca. 1142–1220)Iran

Object Name: Folio from an illustrated manuscript

Date: ca. 1600

Geography: Attributed to Iran, Isfahan

Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper

Habiballah of Sava: Language of the Birds (ca. 1590–1610) The illustration on this folio depicts a scene from a mystical poem, Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds), written by a twelfth-century Iranian, Farid al-Din 'Attar.

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Peacock (circa 1600). Painting by Habiballah of Sava (active circa 1590–1610).

Ink, opaque watercolour, gold, and silver on paper from an illustrated manuscript, author - Farid al-Din `Attar (circa 1142–1220).

Image and text courtesy The Met.

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Detail from a painting by Habiballah of Sava - "The Concourse of the Birds" Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds)

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Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610), The Concourse of the Birds, Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds), Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver, on paper, c. 1600, Iran, Isfahan

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The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (Persian: منطق الطیر‎, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177) is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. The title is taken directly from the Qur’an, 27:16, where Sulayman (Solomon) and Dāwūd (David) are said to have been taught the language, or speech, of the birds (manṭiq al-ṭayr). Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Folio from an illustrated manuscript dated c.1600. Paintings by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610), in ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper, dimensions 25,4 x 11,4 cm.

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The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (Persian: منطق الطیر‎, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177) is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. The title is taken directly from the Qur’an, 27:16, where Sulayman (Solomon) and Dāwūd (David) are said to have been taught the language, or speech, of the birds (manṭiq al-ṭayr). Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Folio from an illustrated manuscript dated c.1600. Paintings by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610), in ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper, dimensions 25,4 x 11,4 cm. © Antonis Kalantzis | FB

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Details from “The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds). Art by Habiballah of Sava.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451725

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Habiballah of Sava Folio from an illustrated manuscript ca. 1600 The Concourse of the Birds

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"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds)ca. 1600

Painting by Habiballah of Sava

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