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Title

  • Hajj directions

Names

  • Yaqut

Created / Published

  • 13th century

Headings

  • -  Calligraphy, Arabic
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Iraq
  • -  Arabic script calligraphy
  • -  Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Islamic calligraphy
  • -  Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Thuluth

Notes

  • -  By 13th-century calligrapher Yaqut al-Musta'simi (d. 696/1296), active at the 'Abbasid court in Baghdad and in the Thuluth script.
  • -  Although the text is not signed and certain additions may have been made later, it is possible that this fragment was executed by Yaqut al-Musta'simi himself.
  • -  Dimensions of Written Surface: 25 (w) x 4 (h) cm
  • -  On the fragment's verso appears a note attributing the piece to the famous 13th-century calligrapher Yaqut al-Musta'simi (d. 696/1296). Active at the 'Abbasid court in Baghdad, he lived through the Mongol invasions (Qadi Ahmad 1959: 57-60). He wrote in the six cursive styles, which included thuluth (used here).
  • -  The line of text is executed in a large and crisp thuluth script in black ink. The words are fully vocalized, and the letter "sin" (s) has three dots below the text line to distinguish it from the letter "shin" (sh). The text is written on a beige piece of paper, framed by cloud bands, and placed on a cloud background. It is provided with several frames, including a horizontal band of blue leaf motifs. It is pasted to a larger sheet of light brown paper backed by cardboard.
  • -  This line of text reads: "Annahu la yastalim ila al-hajar al-aswad wa-al-rukn al-yamani" (He does not permit (it) except (at) the Black Stone and the Yemenite Corner). It appears that this text comprises a fragment of a pilgrimage guide or prescriptive text that states that, during ritual circumambulation (tawaf), touching or kissing the Ka'ba only is permitted at the Black Stone and the Yemenite Corner (the southeast corner). Certain prayers and supplications also are particular to those two corners of the Ka'ba.
  • -  Script: thuluth
  • -  1-04-713.15.4

Medium

  • 1 volume ; 30.8 (w) x 19.5 (h) cm

Repository

  • Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019714516

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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