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In Memory of a Victim of September 11, 2001 terrorist attack … a family member holds yellow roses and an American Flag

September 4th, 2010 by admin | Comments Off | Filed in general

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In Memory of a Victim of September 11, 2001 terrorist attack … a family member holds yellow roses and an American Flag

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A family member of a victim killed during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon holds yellow roses and an American flag in remembrance of his loved one. Family members visited the Pentagon to see the impact site on September 15th. Shortly after 8 AM on September 11, 2001 in an attempt to frighten the American people, five members of Al-Qaida, a group of fundamentalist Islamic Muslims, hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757-200, from Dulles International Airport just outside Washington DC. About 9:30 AM they flew the aircraft and 64 passengers into the side of the Pentagon. The Pentagon attack followed a similar attack, two hijacked passenger planes flown into the twin towers of the New York World Trade Center, on the same day, in what is being called the worst terrorist attack in history.

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Great Islamic Calligraphy photos

September 3rd, 2010 by admin | Comments Off | Filed in calligraphy

Illuminated Manuscript Prayer, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.579, fol.4a
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This elegantly calligraphed and illuminated codex contains a prayer (wird) entitled Miftāḥ al-najāḥ attributed to ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, the fourth caliph of Islam. The manuscript was executed by Shaykh Kamāl ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sabzawārī in Astarabad (present-day Gorgan, Iran) in 941 AH / 1534 CE.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=936

Babur entering Kabul, from Illuminated manuscript Baburnama (Memoirs of Babur), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.596, fol.16a
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Written originally in Chaghatay Turkish and later translated into Persian, Bāburnāmah is the story of a Timurid ruler of Fergana (Central Asia), Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (866 AH /1483 CE – 937 AH / 1530 CE), who conquered northern India and established the Mughal Empire. The present codex, being a fragment of a dispersed copy, was executed most probably in the late 10th AH /16th CE century. It contains 30 mostly full-page miniatures in fine Mughal style by at least two different artists. Another major fragment of this work (57 folios) is in the State Museum of Eastern Cultures, Moscow.