#Nishapur

[fashionbooksmilano]

Ceramiche Persiane IX-XIV Secolo - Michail

a cura di Giovanni Curatola

Michail, Ancient & Islamic Pottery, Milano 1993, 103 pagine, 23x23cm,

euro 45,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Mostra Milano Michail c/o Galleria Garzanti Via Spiga 30

Cento emozioni nella preziosa ed elegante collezione di ceramiche antiche ideata e realizzata da Louise Michail e la figlia Narghes Sorgato, frutto di un’appassionata e competente ricerca di anni. Piccoli capolavori dell’arte fittile prodotti in Persia tra il IX e il XIV secolo. Rare ceramiche da Nishapur, con decorazioni a macchie, a stampo, epigrafiche, spesso recanti interessanti ornamentazioni a tema naturalistico, realizzate con la tecnica a lustro metallico sotto invetriatura. Uno scroscio di genialità ed estro proveniente dalle steppe centro-asiatiche, ricca di soluzioni tecniche sofisticate, frutto di sperimentazioni continue e originali. Cerchi immaginifici, monocromatici o in vivaci bicromie, per questi preziosi reperti medievali, ognuno dei quali ci racconta una storia, talvolta ci reca attraverso i secoli un messaggio a contenuto beneaugurale capace di emozionare come se fosse stato scritto ai giorni nostri.

02/01/24

[polymorphousculturevulture]

Bird ceramic Plate, Nishapur, Iran, X and XI centuries AD.

[panicinthestudio]

Speaking Object: Bowl with Arabic Inscription, November 3, 2022

Listen to the proverb on this epigraphic slip-painted bowl. The Speaking Object project gives voice to inscribed works of art from the Islamic world.

The Met

Bowl with Arabic Inscription, 10th century

From Iran, Nishapur

Earthenware; white slip with black-slip decoration under transparent glaze

H. 7 in. (17.8 cm), Diam. 18 in. (45.7 cm)

The calligraphic decoration on this bowl reads "Planning before work protects you from regret; prosperity and peace," but the shortening, bending, and elongation of the letters has transformed the words into abstract motifs of tremendous power. With its monumental presence and the artful arrangement of its letters, in which vertical flourishes punctuate the horizontal flow of the words at rhythmic intervals, this bowl stands out among the many other inscribed ceramics of the same period.

Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[avetruth]

Nilhan Sarıgül. Selçuklu başkenti Nîşâbûr: kuruluşundan büyük Selçuklu hâkimiyetinin sonuna kadar. Yüksek lisans tezi (2018) https://www.avetruthbooks.com/2023/10/nilhan-sarigul-selcuklu-baskenti-nisabur-kurulusundan-buyuk-selcuklu-hakimiyetinin-sonuna-kadar-yuksek-lisans-tezi-2018.html

[edwordsmyth]

"I saw Love above faith or infidelity; I saw it bear no sign of doubt or certainty. Faithlessness, assurance, doubt, and religion I saw convene in the presence of Reason. Since I surpassed Reason by a hundred realms I can say I discern infidelity and faith. All the barriers along the Path are self-made. I found them similar to Alexander’s rampart. You shall be fully effaced upon the Path. I saw the road leading us closer to this. When I took up the task of description I saw the features with my bodily eyes. For every feature I annihilated I saw another one lying in ambush. When my soul transcended description I saw it drown in an ocean of flames. As my harvest burned in that ocean I saw the moon and the sun harvesting my crop. You could say the ocean was infinite. I saw the Paradise and the houris in it. When I traversed such an ocean I saw the Rakhsh of sun beneath a saddle. I considered the two worlds as a ring; I saw the heart as a gemstone upon that ring." -ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur

[majestativa]

The destruction of the heart is in reliance on humankind.

— Futayma of Nishapur, Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure, (2003)

[myartisdangerous]

What shadow is ever separated from its maker? Do you see? The shadow and its maker are one and the same, so get over surfaces and delve into mysteries.

- Attar, The Conference of the Birds

[loneberry]

--Qur-an, 27:16 *

--Gaston Bachelard, Water and Dreams *

Liquid speech. Sonic mirrors. Language may just be humans imitating the birds imitating the river. I'm sad my birder friends have gone home. One is a Bachelard scholar. We waxed rhapsodic about this passage while discussing deep listening. The birder friends made me aware that even in my urban yard there's so much ornithological variety. Those twitters high up in the ficus leaves? It's the Allen's hummingbird, which I dreamed the same night I dreamed I migrated to Sofia, Bulgaria:

Dream I bought a half-finished house in Sofia, Bulgaria, but it was somehow on the border of the Italian Alps, in a quiet marsh. I see the map in my mind. How far am I from the Black Sea? How it glimmered when seen from above. Narrow streets. The station was dark. Ate our cheap station food by the light of our cell phones (I have a “candlelight” option on the bottom of my cell phone). Were we going to the sea?

The house had three trees inside. I didn’t want to cut them down. One had white fuzzy leaves and produced a strange fruit that was a cross between a date and an olive, but much larger. Was it a Bulgarian specialty? I asked a woman with a beautiful garden. She spoke perfect English. 

In the center of the living room was a bathing basin. There was a library with a loft. The plan was to run a community center out of it. 

I see a coppery hummingbird with a red spot.

[eyeoftheheart]

“What you most want, what you travel around wishing to find, lose yourself as lovers lose themselves, and you'll be that.”

~ Attar of Nishapur

"Looking For Your Own Face" as translated by Coleman Barks in The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia

[letoghanima]

daemyra appreciation week: day 2 – songs/lyrics ⤷ the conference of birds, attar of nishapur

[pwlanier]

Nishapur Figural Bowl, 10th century, Iran, Nishapur, Samanid period (819–1005). Earthenware with underglaze decoration.

Nishapur was founded as a Sasanian imperial city and ceramics produced here regularly incorporate elements from Sasanian metalware. The lively decoration on this bowl features four bearded figures surrounded by animals, birds, and angular script (possibly extending baraka, blessing). The central horse with a cheetah on his back suggests an imperial hunt, a common theme in Sasanian and Islamic art. The decorative motifs and figures employed on Nishapur polychrome ware reflect the rich cultural traditions in this part of northeastern Iran. Some vessels, like this one, depict the pastime of hunting, others reflect festivals celebrated by Muslims and Zoroastrians, and a few display Christian symbols.

Courtesy Alain Truong

[tammuz]

Persian jug with painted bands of calligraphy and foliage from the city of Nishapur, dating back to 10th-12th centuries CE. Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

[desertflowerbowling]

malevolent poetry references: season 1

part 4: the voices

this is the first of multiple times that this phrase appears in the show. it appears to have originated from a medieval Persian fable, written by the Sufi poet Attar of Nishapur. the phrase was popularized in the west following an early nineteenth century translation and retelling of the story by Edward Fitzgerald.

part 5: the gift

this is a line from “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” by the American poet Robert Frost. it was first published in 1923, eleven years before the events of malevolent.

part 8: the caves

the quotation here comes from “Cassilda’s Song”, a poem written by Robert W. Chambers as a preface to his 1895 book, The King in Yellow, a collection of short stories.

part 12: the end

this isn’t poetry, but it is a notable reference, because it is a quote from H.P. Lovecraft. the full quote is: “The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.”

[holycosmolo9y]

Elephant figure, carved of stone

Nishapur, Iran

(10th century CE)

[talonabraxas]

“The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams. Turn to what truly lives, reject what seems – Which matters more, the body or the soul? Be whole: desire and journey to the Whole.” ― Attar of Nishapur The Conference of the Birds 🦚 🐦🦜🦅 Talon Abraxas

[majestativa]

Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī said: “In all of my life, I have only seen one true man and one true woman. The woman was Fāṭima of Nishapur. There was no station (on the way) about which I spoke with her, but that she had already experienced it herself.”

— Bayazid Bastami, Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure, on Fatima of Nishapur, (2003)