HUSAYN WA'IZ KASHIFI (840 /1436 - 910/ 1505)
Mount Damavand (6,105m-18,410ft)
Iran
In The Anvār-i Suhaylī or Lights of Canopus, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
About this work
Walters
Art Museum manuscript W.599 is an illuminated and illustrated copy of
Anvar-i Suhayli (The lights of Canopus), dating to the 13th century
AH/AD 19thand attributed to Husayn Kashifi
It is a Persian version of Kalilah wa-Dimnah (The fables
of Bidpay). It was completed on 26 Jumadá I 1264 AH/AD 1847 by Mirza
Rahim. The text is written in Nasta'liq script in black and red ink,
revealing the influence of Shikastah script. There are 123 paintings
illustrating the text. The Qajar binding is original to the manuscript.
The mountain
Mount Damāvand (5, 610m -18,410ft),
in Persian دماوند , a potentially active volcano, is a stratovolcano
which is the highest peak in Iran and the Middle East as well as the
highest volcano in Asia (the Kunlun Volcanic Group in Tibet has a higher
elevation than Damāvand, but are not considered to be volcanic
mountains). It has a special place in Persian mythology and folklore.The
origins and meaning of the word "Damavand" is unclear, yet some
prominent researchers have speculated that it probably means "The
mountain from which smoke and ash arises", alluding to the volcanic
nature of the mountain.
This peak is located in the middle of the
Alborz range, adjacent to Varārū, Sesang, Gol-e Zard, and Mīānrūd. The
mountain is located near the southern coast of the Caspian Sea, in Amol
County, Mazandaran Province, 66 kilometres (41 miles) northeast of the
city of Tehran. Mount Damāvand is the 12th most prominent peak in the
world, and the second most prominent in Asia after Mount Everest.
It is the highest volcanic mountain in Asia, and part of the Volcanic
Seven Summits mountaineering challenge. Damavand is a significant
mountain in Persian mythology. It is the symbol of Iranian resistance
against despotism and foreign rule in Persian poetry and literature. In
Zoroastrian texts and mythology, the three-headed dragon Aži Dahāka was
chained within Mount Damāvand, there to remain until the end of the
world. In a later version of the same legend, the tyrant Zahhāk was also
chained in a cave somewhere in Mount Damāvand after being defeated by
Kāveh and Fereydūn. Persian poet Ferdowsi depicts this event in his
masterpiece, the Shahnameh, in which the mountain is said to hold
magical powers. Damāvand has also been named in the Iranian legend of
Arash (as recounted by Bal'ami) as the location from which the hero shot
his magical arrow to mark the border of Iran, during the border dispute
between Iran and Turan. The famous poem Damāvand by Mohammad Taqī Bahār
is also one fine example of the mountain's significance in Persian
literature.
Mount Damavand is depicted on the reverse of the Iranian 10,000 rials banknote.
An anthropologist of Mazandaran Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Department, Touba Osanlou, has said that a proposal has been put forward
by a group of Iranian mountaineers to register the highest peak in the
Middle East, Mount Damavand as a national heritage site. Mazandaran
Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department has accepted the proposal, the
Persian daily Jam-e Jam reported.
The artistKamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Alī Kashifi, best simply known as Husayn Kashifi, was a prolific Persia
] prose-stylist, a poet, a Quran exegete, a Sufi scholar, and an astronomer of the Timurid era. Kashifi was his pen name, whereas his surname al-Wāʿiẓ ("the preacher") denoted his professional occupation. He spent most of his career in Herat, where his academic activities were supported by Ali-Shir Nava'i, a senior vizier in the Timurid court during Sultan Husayn Bayqara's rule, hence the reason for Kashifi to dedicate most of his works to Nava'i. He was also very close to the famous Persian poet and Sufi, Nur al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman Jami. His famous works include Akhlaq-e Mohseni and Anwar-e Sohaili (above) in Persian prose, and Jawaher al-Tafsir and Mawaheb-e 'Aliyya which are Persian tafsirs of the Quran.
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