Document Type : Original Article
Author
Master of Art Research of the University of Arts of Tehran
Abstract
In illustrating literary manuscripts that has aways been carried out under the influnce of the religious beliefs of the artists and their patrons, the hadiths narrated by the holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) and his Ahlul-Bayt (AS) have widely been inspired from. The artists’ approach toward the content of such hadiths has resulted in certain manifestations of analogical, symbolic and abstract processing in the narrating hadiths through paintings which are used to transfer Shiite beliefs through a visual language. The main sources of illustration for the Shiite artists are the hadith collections like Oyoun Akhbar Al-Reza that particularly deals with the virtues and miracles of Imams (AS). One of the illustrated manuscripts which has dealt with Shiite beliefs is Falnameh Tahmasebi in which some illustrations attributed to Imam Reza (AS) have been used. The illustration might have been drawn form the hadiths collected by Sheikh Sadough. Having explored the life of Sheikh Sadough, the present research sets out to critically and descriptively study the characteristics of Razavi illustrations in the Falnameh and the way the hadiths drawn from the collection of Sheikh Sadoogh have been reflected in. According to some studies, the Shiite Art has, inspired by the pure teachings of Shi'ism, tried to reflect the extraordinary efforts of religious and artistic elites of different time periods.
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