#Reza Abbasi

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The Lovers, Reza Abbasi, 1630

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(style of) Reza 'Abbasi, Young Portuguese Man, 19th c. x

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Leere Netze (2023)

Leere Netze (2023) #BehroozKaramizade #HamidRezaAbbasi #SadafAsgari #KeyvanMohammadi #AliBagheri #MojtabaBahmani Mehr auf:

تورهای خالی / Empty NetsJahr: 2023 Genre: Drama Regie: Behrooz Karamizade Hauptrollen: Hamid Reza Abbasi, Sadaf Asgari, Keyvan Mohammadi, Ali Bagheri, Mojtaba Bahmani, Mehrdad Bakhshi, Behzad Dorani, Ali Mohseni, Pantea Panahiha … Filmbeschreibung: Amir (Hamid Reza Abbasi) und Narges (Sadaf Asgari) wollen endlich heiraten und ein gemeinsames Leben aufbauen. Im Weg stehen den beiden jedoch die…

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List of notable Muslim allies of queer, trans or LGBTQI+ folks

Imam al-Nawawi – ally of Mukhannathun or trans femmes, female transsexuals and effeminate queers

Saint Khawaja Gharib Nawaz – ally and patron of Hijra and Khawaja Sara communities

Saint Baba Bulleh Shah – ally and patron of Muslim Khawaja Sira communities

Saint Lal Shabaz Qalander – patron of Khawaja Sira & trans Muslim communities

Abu Muhammad Ali Ibn Hazm – ally of queer Muslims

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - ally of transgender & intersex folks

Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi - ally of trans & intersex folks

Amina Wadud - ally of LGBTQI+ Muslims, founder of Queer Islamic Studies and Theology (QIST)

Gulbanu Khaki/Gul Khaki - ally of LGBTQ+ muslims, mother of a gay imam

Khaled Hosseini - ally of transgender & proud muslim dad of a transgender child

Siddika Jessa - LGBTQI+ activist, mother of a gay muslim son

Ani Zonneveld

Pamela Taylor

Laura Silver

Omid Safi

Kecia Ali

Ghazala Anwar

Ensaf Haider

Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur

Farid Esack

Zaitun Mohamed Kasim/Toni Mohamed Kasim

Anne-Sophie Monsinay

Imam Kahina Bahloul

Imam Philip Tuley

Imam Tahir Chaudhry

Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle

Farouk Peru

Abdennur Prado

Ingrid Mattson

Hasan Minhaj

Reza Aslan

Alia Bano

Zaid Ibrahim

Azahn Munas

Ayman Fadel

Inayat Bunglawala

Shahla Khan Salter

Nakia Jackson

Jeewan Chanicka

Taj Hargey

Michael Muhammad Knight

Maajid Nawaz

Shehnilla Mohamed

Mustafa Akyol

Writer Sabina Khan

Activist Jerin Arifa

Urvah Khan - LGBTQI+ ally, co-founder of Muslim Pride Toronto

Imam Khaleel Mohammed

Imam Tareq Oubrou

Imam Dr Rashied Omar

Shaykha Fariha Fatima al-Jerrahi

Shaykha Amina Teslima al-Jerrahi

Scholar Hussein Abdullatif

Maysoun Douas

Fátima Taleb

Aydan Özoğuz

Omid Nouripour

Özcan Mutlu

Ekin Deligöz

Cem Özdemir

Artist Nadia Khan

Marina Mahathir

Siti Musdah Mulia

Karima Bennoune

Grand Mufti Sheikh Assadullah Mwale

Muneeb Qadir

Dr. Amir Hussein

Dr. Sana Yasir

Dr. Sali Berisha

Dr. Omer Adil

Hashim Thaçi

Albin Kurti

Supermodel Nadia Hussain

Irish-Bangladeshi singer Joy Elizabeth Akther Crookes

Salma Hayek

Fouad Yammine

Pakistani Director Asim Abbasi

Pakistani Actress Nadia Jamil

Indian Actor Saqib Saleem

Indian Actor Irrfan Khan

Indian Actor Aamir Khan

Indian Actress Zeenat Khan/Aman

Indian Actress Shabana Azmi

Indian Actress Saba Azad

Indian Actress Sara Ali Khan

Indian Actress Huma Qureshi

Indian Director Zoya Khan

Pakistani Actor Furqan Qureshi

Bangladeshi Actress Azmeri Haque Badhon

Actor Muneeb Butt

Indian Actress Zareen Khan

Indian Actor Imran khan

Pakistani Actress Mehar Bano

Filmmaker Faruk Kabir

Filmmaker Saim Sadiq

Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Riz Ahmed

Zayn Malik

Sally El-Hosaini

Malala Yousefzai

Hafid Abbas

Hojatoleslam Kariminia

Singer Sherina Munaf

Writer Alifa Rifaat

Writer Ismat Chughtai

Activist Nida Mushtaq

Activist Aan Anshori

Abdul Muiz Ghazali

Kyai Hussein Muhammad

Marzuki Wahid

Gigi Hadid

President Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) - ally of waria or transgender females

Sinta Nuriyah - ally of trans & waria folks

Politician Keith Ellison

Mayor Sadiq Khan

Politician Ilhan Omar

Politician Rashida Tlaib

Politician Rushanara Ali

Politician Nabilah Islam

Politician Shahana Hanif

Politician Rama Yade

Politician Humza Yousaf

Politician Zarah Sultana

UK Sectratary General Zara Mohammed

Turkish politician Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

Bengali Influencer Sobia Ameen

Shaykh Michael Mumisa

Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan

Mufti Abdur Rahman Azad - Hijra ally

Sheikh Hasina - Ally of hijra-intersex communities

Lawyer Iftikhar Chaudhry

Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

Professor Amel Grami

Professor Muhammad Aslam Khaki

Mohammad Hashim Kamali

Mehrdad Alipour

Lawyer Imaan Mazari/Iman Mazari

Shireen Mazari

Syed Murad Ali Shah

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Youth reading, 1625–26, painting by Reza Abbasi, Isfahan school. Some people consider Reza Abbasi one of the last great Persian miniature artists. He is renowned for his single miniatures created for muraqqa, or albums. A muraqqa is an album in book form containing Islamic miniature paintings and specimens of Islamic calligraphy, normally from several different sources.

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Majnun on horse buying a deer from a hunter,

Folio from the Khamsa (‘Quintet’) of Nizami, signed Mu’in Musavvir

Safavid Persia,

17th century CE / 11th century AH

Once upon a time, one poet, Qays ibn al-Malawa, fell into an all-consuming love with a noblewoman, Layla al-Amiriyya. While the infatuation was mutual, they were forbidden to marry, crushing Qays into a state of anguish so inconsolable that people started calling him Majnun: ‘the crazy one’. At once an allegory to divine love (‘ishq), the best version of this story, Majnun Layla, was composed by Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209 CE / 535-605 AH) to form the third part of his long narrative poems, Khamsa (‘Quintet’). A celebrated treasure of Persian literature, Khamsa has greatly influenced poetical imagery and miniature painting for centuries on end. The undersigned artist of this painting, Mu’in Musavvir (Mu’in ‘the painter’), fl. 1630 – 1637 CE / 1039-1047 AH), was himself a student of Reza ‘Abbasi.

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1) From Tarsusi's Darab-nama (The Book of Darab), 16th century. Manuscript in the British Library. (source)

2) From Firdawsi’s Shahnama (The Book of Kings), 17th century. Rustam slaying a dragon. Manuscript in the British Library. (source)

3) From Firdawsi’s Shahnama (The Book of Kings), 16th century. Bahram slaying a dragon. Manuscript in the private collection of Qotb al-Din Hasan al-Tuni. (source)

4) From Firdawsi’s Shahnama (The Book of Kings), 14th century. Bahram slaying a dragon. Manuscript in the Topkapı Palace collection. (source)

5) From Firdawsi’s Shahnama (The Book of Kings), 16th century. Isfandyar slaying a dragon. Once for auction at Sotheby's. (source)

6) From Firdawsi’s Shahnama (The Book of Kings), 18th century. Rustam slaying a dragon. Manuscript in the Harvard Art Museum. (source)

7) From Firdawsi’s Shahnama (The Book of Kings), 18th century. Rustam slaying a dragon with his horse Rakhsh. Manuscript in the Khalili Family Trust. (source)

8) Miniature from the Jainesque Shahnama (The Book of Kings) of Firdawsi, 15th century. Garshasp slaying the dragon Azi-Sruwar. Manuscript in the Museum Reitberg. (source)

9) From Tarsusi's Darab-nama (The Book of Darab), 16th century. Dragon speaking to Darab. Manuscript in the British Library. (source)

10) From Al-Tha'labi's Qisas al-Anbiya (Stories of the Prophets), 16th century. Art by Reza Abbasi. Moses and Aaron conjure a dragon to attack the Pharoah's magicians. Manuscipt in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. (source)

While searching fo  old wonky images of dragons I thought it was interesting that the designs in Persian manuscripts were clearly inspired by Chinese art, while otherwise acting more like “western dragons”

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Jalilvand’s “Beyond the Wall” wins big at Iranian Film Festival New York

February 3, 2024 - 17:59

TEHRAN-The winners of the 2nd Iranian Film Festival New York (IrFFNY) were announced on the last day of the festival, which was held from January 25 to February 2.

This year’s edition of the festival presented a selection of acclaimed and award-winning films from one of the world’s most vital and distinguished national cinemas. From the total of 20 feature and short films presented at the event, five titles won the festival awards, ILNA reported.

“Beyond the Wall” written and directed by Vahid Jalilvand was the big winner of the festival as it won the Special Jury Award and also shared the Audience Award with “Subtraction” by Mani Haghighi.

The third and latest film by Jalilvand, “Beyond the Wall” is about a blind man named Ali who attempts suicide, but is interrupted by his building concierge; he then tells Ali about an escaped woman, named Leila, who is hidden in the building. Ali becomes determined to help Leila.

The film stars Navid Mohammadzadeh and Amir Aghaei, who both worked with Jalilvand in his previous film “No Date, No Signature,” which won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actor and Director at the 74th Venice Film Festival. The other members of the cast include Diana Habibi, Saeed Dakh, Danial Kheirikhah, and Alireza Kamali.

“Beyond the Wall” had earlier received several nominations at the 79th Venice International Festival and Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

The other movie that won the Audience Award, “Subtraction,” happens in downtown Tehran where Farzaneh, a young driving instructor, spots her husband, Jalal, walking into a woman’s apartment. When she confronts him, Jalal claims he was out of town for work. He decides to check out the building for himself. There, he meets a woman who is the spitting image of Farzaneh. Her name is Bita. Stunned, the two compare family photos: Bita’s husband also looks identical to Jalal.

Navid Mohammadzadeh, Taraneh Alidoosti, Ali Bagheri, Saeed Changizian, and Gilda Vishki are in the cast among others.

The Best Film Award went to ��Empty Nets” by Behrooz Karamizade. An Iran-Germany co-production, it tells the story of Amir and Narges, who have found genuine love in their coastal hometown near the Caspian Sea. However, to gain the approval of Narges' wealthy family, Amir requires a significant amount of money urgently. Faced with limited options, he secures a job at a nearby fishery, embarking on a perilous yet profitable venture involving the illicit smuggling of black-market caviar.

Hamidreza Abbasi and Sadaf Asgari play the main roles in the film that won the special jury award at the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czech last July.

“A Childless Village” by Reza Jamali received the Artistic or Technical Achievement Award. As suggested by the title, the funny film-in-film comedy is about a small rural village, where no children have been born for a while and all the men assume that it is the fault of the women. 

Two decades ago, old filmmaker Kazem came to this remote rural village to make a documentary about the barrenness of the village women. But the village women wanted to protect their dignity, so they stole and burnt the footage.

By today, the villagers have found out that the men are sterile and there is nothing wrong with the women. With the help of his assistant, Kazem tries to record some interviews with the infertile men to unfold the truth in a new movie, but this turns out in many ways to be a Mission: Impossible.

The Best Short Film Award was given to “Nietzschean Suicide” written and directed by Payam Kurdistani. 

A suicide pharmacy owner tries to delay the suicide of the only midwife in his city until after his pregnant wife gives birth. Out of his efforts comes a novel suicide method that can revive his customers’ will to live.

Sal Galofaro, Tabassom Ostad, and Rory O’Brien play in the 15-minute flick

The Iranian Film Festival New York aims to unite two strands of Iranian moviemaking – the classic art-house Iranian cinema beloved by cinephiles around the world and new cutting-edge works that showcase the adventurousness and daring nature of younger Iranian directors.

SS/SAB

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Reza Abbasi (Iranian, 1565-1635)

Two Lovers

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Style of Riza-yi Abbasi, Sleeping Youth, Isfahan, Safavid Period, early 17th century, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, image: 21 x 12.4 cm, overall: 31.6 x 20.4 cm, The Cleveland Museum of Art. 

   “In the late 1500s, a new artistic aesthetic developed under the socially and economically conscious Shah ’Abbas I (reigned 1587–1629), who established Isfahan as the grand capital of Iran, improving its infrastructure and foreign trade with Europe, especially for the export of raw silk. Made for patrons in the marketplace, landscape paintings began to feature isolated figures in pastoral and daily life settings on single pages, replacing the idealized court paintings made for shahs. Here, the sleeping youth wears a voluminous silk sash enriched with gold thread and a billowing turban that cushions his head in the willow tree, both signs of nobility.”

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Reza Abbasi رضا عباسی (Iranian, 1565–1635),

The Old man and the Youth 

second quarter 17th century

Iran, Isfahan

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Art by Reza Abbasi

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The Two Lovers by Riza-yi `Abbasi (1630)

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Youth reading, c. 1625, and Two Lovers, 1630, by Reza Abbasi (c. 1565-1635)

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Two Lovers, by Reza Abbasi, 1630

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No Bears

directed by Jafar Panahi, 2022