Manuscript/Mixed Material Levha (panel praising 'Ali)
About this Item
Title
- Levha (panel praising 'Ali)
Created / Published
- 18th-19th centuries
Headings
- - Calligraphy, Arabic
- - Calligraphy, Persian
- - Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
- - India
- - Arabic script calligraphy
- - Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
- - Islamic calligraphy
- - Islamic manuscripts
- - Nasta'liq
Notes
- - Framed calligraphic inscription called a Levha, In Arabic. Written in Nasta'liq script in a Shi'i milieu, most likely in India during the 18th-19th centuries.
- - 'Ali is described as the rightful Vice Regent of the Prophet Muhammad (i.e., Mustafa), a ruler of men and spirits, and a true manifestation of prophethood. This invocation to the son-in-law of the Prophet shows that the piece must have been produced in a Shi'i milieu, most likely in India during the 18th-19th centuries. The panel may have been included in an album of calligraphies or put on display on a wall.
- - Dimensions of Written Surface: 33.4 (w) x 21 (h) cm
- - This calligraphic panel is written in black nasta'liq on a brown surface and framed by two borders in plain green and blue decorated with gold stars. The inscription provides an invocation of 'Ali through his many epithets:
- - Wali imam al-ins wa al-jinnah haqqan al-Mustafa / The Sucessor of the Leader of Humankind and Spirits, the Mustafa in Reality
- - Script: nasta'liq
- - 1-04-713.19.28
Medium
- 1 volume ; 37.4 (w) x 25.4 (h) cm
Repository
- Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2019714533
Online Format
- image