#Habiballah of Sava

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The Concourse of the Birds (c. 1600), by 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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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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The Concourse of the Birds

Habiballah of Sava, c. 1600

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La Conferencia de los Pájaros - Habiballah of Sava (c. 1600)

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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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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