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In
the
presence
of
guests,
masters,
scholars
and the
Secretary
of the
painting
congress
of
Isfahan
school
yesterday's
evening,
a
session
went
underway
at
Isfahan
University
of Arts.
Reported
by the
Public
Relations
of the
Academy
of Arts,
at the
beginning
of the
congress,
Amir-Hussein
Zekrgoo
presented
an
article
titled,
"Introducing
the
Manuscript
of the
Illustrated
Shahnameh
in Kuala
Lumpur."
"The
manuscript
collection
Department
of ASCS
in Kuala
Lumpur,
Malaysia
holds a
precious
Shahnameh
dating
back to
1021
A.H.
This
elegant
volume
has been
masterfully
created
by the
calligrapher,
Ibn
Hassan
Al-Kermani.
This
manuscript
is in a
good
condition,
the
pictures
maintained
their
primary
quality,
although
the
faces of
some
characters
were
collored
in 18th
and 19th
Century
A.D. and
some
pages
have
been
amended
later.
Next,
Asqar
Javani
remarked
on the
paintings
of a
well-known
manuscript,
Akhlaq-e
Mohseni
(Mohseni
Ethics)
or
Javaher-al
Asrar:
"Written
by
kamal-e
Din
Molla
Hussein
Kashefi
Akhlaq-e
Mohseni
in the
court of
Sultan
Husein
Bayaqra,
the book
contains
40
chapters
and
resembles
Qazali's
Monjiat-e
Ehyay-el
Olum the
book
mostly
discusses
on
individual
and
family
ethics
and
presents
Aristotle's
ethics
in an
Islamic
manner
relished
with
mysticism,"
he said.
Following
the
session,
Ali
Asqar
Mirza'ei
presented
his
essay,
"Introducing
the
manuscript
of
Kabul's
Shahnameh:
"The
seals
and
attributed
writings
in
addition
to
existing
paintings
in the
library
of the
King
describe
an
illustrated
version
of
Shahnameh
belonging
to
Isfahan
school
which is
preserved
in the
national
archive
of
Kabul,
the
capital
of
Afghanistan
.This
version
contains
more
than a
hundred
paintings.
The
painter
is
Muhammad
Shafi'e
Ibn
Muhammad
Masih
which
has
painted
them in
115-1119
A.H. and
the
calligrapher
is
Atta-Allah
Hejazi
which
has
written
it with
Nasta'aliq
lettering
in 1044.
It's the
first
time
that the
involved
artists
whether
painter
or
calligrapher
have
been
introduced.
It must
be
pointed
out that
at the
end of
the
session
Firuza
Abdullave
the
scholar
from
Turkey
presented
her
article
titled
National
Library
of
Russia
and
Isfahan
school":
"The
terms
like
Isfahan,
Shiraz
or Herat
school
or even
the
style of
painting
can be
ambiguous.
Sometimes
it's
even
more
difficult
to
attribute
the
painting
to a
definite
artist,"
she
said.
One
of the
best
examples
of such
puzzles
is the
manuscript
of
Shahnameh
with
calligraphy
by
Shams-al
Din
Sheikh
Muhammad
in
1663-1669
A.D. and
has been
illustrated
in 1693
-1698
A.D. The
session
came to
an end
with the
questions
of
attendants
and
answers
by
experts.
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