Hagop K. Kevorkian

Name: The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam
Author: Hagop K. Kevorkian

The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam

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“The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam”, is a work by Hagop K. Kevorkian. It explores elements such as Persian, Muhammadan and Islam.

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Hagop K. Kevorkian, The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam

“ It was undoubtedly to Islam, that simple yet majestic creed of which no unprejudiced student can ignore the grandeur, that Arabs owed the splendid part which they were destined to play in the history of civilization. In judging of the Arabian Prophet, western critics are too often inclined to ignore the condition from which he raised his country, and to forget that many institutions which they condemn were not introduced but only tolerated by Islam. The early Muslims were very sensible of the immense amelioration in their life effected by Muhammad's teachings. ”

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Hagop K. Kevorkian, The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam

“ A powerful political unity came into existence and continued for a period of six centuries uninterrupted. The nations of this united kingdom of Islam were thus merged into one unit, under the stimulus of one formal religion, freely transmigrating local ideas. Arts and culture were transformed, but the evolution thus caused by the Religion was essentially political in nature.
"There is no God but God," said the Apostle of Arabia, but the poet reflected awhile, and his rejoinder was: "The Ways of God are as the number of souls of men." ”

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“ The rise of Islam and its rapid advent to power, is perhaps the most surprising chapter of the history of mankind. The great empires, Persian and Byzantine, which were subjected to the urgent onslaught of this rising power may have been in an enfeebled condition as a result of excess of despotism and internal dissensions, as historians affirm ”

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Hagop K. Kevorkian, The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam

“ It appears that the exemplary behavior of the Arabs, under their newly acquired faith, was the main factor not only in the success of their scheme of conquest, but also in the impression which it made on the defeated in determining them to adopt the faith which produced such upright warriors.
The tremendous political upheaval that the evolution of Islam brought in its train to the affairs of the world does not fall within the scope of this paper. ”

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Hagop K. Kevorkian, The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam

“ At this juncture it was that, all of a sudden, there emerged from deserts hardly known and appeared on the scene of the world a new people, hitherto divided into innumerable nomad tribes, who, for the most part, had been at war with one another, now for the first time united. ”

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Hagop K. Kevorkian, The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam

“ When one walks in these places expressly made for the delights of love and when one passes through all these cabinets and niches, one's heart is melted to such an extent that to speak candidly, one always leaves with a very ill grace. ”

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Hagop K. Kevorkian, The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam

“ In the field of literature, which is so little known in the western world, the influence is even greater than in the visual art with which we are concerned. Muhammadan literature, be it Arabic, Turkish, or Persian, is Persian in spirit and feeling. [7]
The fusion of Muhammadan doctrine with this Aryan (Persian) culture of old, [8] is an important event in the history of Art. ”

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Hagop K. Kevorkian, The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam

“ Righteousness is not that ye turn your faces to the East and to the West, but righteousness is this: Whosoever believeth in God, and the last day, and the angels, and the book, and the prophets; and whoso, for the love of God, giveth of his wealth unto his kindred, and unto orphans, and the poor, and the traveller, and to those who crave alms, and for the release of the captives ”

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Hagop K. Kevorkian, The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam

“ We feel the presence of an element prevailing throughout, and underlying every form of expression, an element which may be described in a word, "Human".
It is stated that the Persian spirit and feeling were reflected in all forms of artistic expression of the Muhammadan world. ”

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Hagop K. Kevorkian, The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam

“ THIS exhibition has been arranged with a desire to meet the convenience of those who are interested in manifestations of the arts of different countries over which Islam held sway at one time or other in the past. An effort has been made to show under one roof representative examples of works produced at different epochs and stages of the civilizations referred to, so that they may be seen, and perhaps studied, with the minimum expenditure of time. ”

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Hagop K. Kevorkian, The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam

“ It would be difficult to offer an explanation for the underlying unity and integrity of character manifest in the artistic expression of the Muhammadan countries, of vast geographical range, without a clear understanding of the vital force contained in the teachings of the Arabian Apostle, and the characteristics of his people, destined to carry those teachings from one end of the earth to the other. ”

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Hagop K. Kevorkian, The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam

“ For out of this fusion came forth into being a new phase of artistic expression completely different, in form and spirit, from its predecessors. Probably of equal importance is the fact that, although practised by divers races and subjected to many developments, fluctuations and variations, it has retained throughout the centuries its identical characteristics. What was the vital force that brought about this cultural evolution and unification? The answer appears to be Religion, as we shall see.
The foundation of the Muhammadan Empire was Religion. ”

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Hagop K. Kevorkian, The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam

“ A highly important fact, however, must not be lost sight of, that by consolidating and unifying the tottering states a new civilization was founded which knew how to turn to account the culture of the ancient states conquered. ”

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“ I had sometime before presented an invective against our so much affecting the French fashion, to his Majesty, in which I took occasion to describe the comelinesse and usefulness of the Persian clothing, in ye very same manner his Maty now clad himself."—John Evelyn (A.D. 1666) , celebrated historian and diarist.
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which is but One, reveals itself through countless phenomena which are but reflections of One. ”

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“ Detail of exquisitely painted woodwork from the Pavilion of Chahal Situn (Hall of Forty Pillars) , the Palace at Ispahan built by Shah Abbas.
The young Shah, who was pleased with the leader of the party (Europeans) , gave him royal gifts, Sir Anthony Sherley records (1598) , including "forty horses all furnished, two with exceeding rich saddles, plated with gold, and set with rubies and turquoises." To these he added camels, tents, and a sum of money.
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her old faith, source of sustaining energy ”

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“ It is interesting to notice that Sharaf-u-din mentions the presence of the Ambassadors, "for," he writes, "even the smallest of fish have their place in the sea". Truly a delightful touch!—History of Persia, by Sir Percy Sykes, Vol. II, page 133.11
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ILLUSTRATIONS FOR TITLE-PAGES OF A SHAHNAMA (EPIC OF KINGS) OF THE XVTH CENTURY
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"On the extreme of the western side of the royal precincts opening on to the Chahar Bagh are a garden and building. The Garden was previously called "Bagh i Bulbul" (Garden of Nightingales) .—Lord Curzon, History of Persia. ”

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