Javânmard et les roses de Nâ-Kojâ-Âbâd
Mercredi 10 octobre 2007
Before I start writing the articles for which this blog was created I think it would be most useful for my readers to know what this blog is about and why I
chose this title.The articles of this blog will rotate around the notion of mystical Shi'ism and will include different obediences such as mystical Ithna'sharism, Shi'a Sufism,Nizari Ismailism,
Ahl-i Haqq as well as Indian traditions that have emerged out of mystical Shi'ism such as the Sikh tradition and the different attempts to bridge the gap between Islam and Indian religions.
This blog is thus not another place where people come to congratulate each other about the fact of being Shi'a like so many Shi'a forums. Nor will it be a place where dirty subjects like politics will be discussed. Let us leave dead subjects to the dead!
Art, literature and music will play an important part in this blog as well as they are an integral part of this mystical tradition.
The title refers to the javânmard , the mystical knight, because chivalry is the very heart of the Shi'a tradition. At the same time it being a Persian word it reminds us of the Iranian heritage present in this tradition, not as an influence but rather like a progressio harmonica. After all isn't our Lord Imâm Sâhib e Zâman (atfs) the rightful heir of the Zoroastrian tradition as well through Imam Hussain's wife,Lady Shahr Bano (as), daughter of Yazdegard III?
Nâ Kojâ Âbâd refers to the spiritual world that the mystic has access to. It is a very real world, actually even more real than the phsyical world even though it is not to be found on any map. The map to find it is divine revelation and the journey to it is the mystical path.
The rose has a great significance in the Shi'a tradition. As the favourite flower of the Prophet (pbuh) it enjoys a great status. It stands for beauty and grace, the Feminine Divine but also the heart of the mystic.
The picture that I have chosen for the title of this blog is by an Iranian painter Hossain Nouri. It has a very mystical dimension to it a sort of nostalgia of paradise, a longing for the vision of spiritual beauty.It is called "The Evening of Ashura" and is a testimony to the spiritual victory that was Ashura. Most people just focuss on the pain of Ashura but the real dimension of Ashura is a spiritual victory against darkness.
The other reason why I chose this artist is that he himself embodies great chivalrous values. Handicapped due to torture under the Shah's regime he only paints with his mouth. When the horrible and disgusting Danish caricatures enraged the world, he painted a portrait of the Holy Virgin Mary in front of the Danish embassy in Tehran, thus showing the chivalrous attitude that is at the heart of Iranian Shi'a culture: responding to blasphemy and ugliness by art and devotion.
www.nuri-art.com/index-h.html
This is the ethos of the javânmard: to fight the forces of darkness with light and beauty.
This blog is thus not another place where people come to congratulate each other about the fact of being Shi'a like so many Shi'a forums. Nor will it be a place where dirty subjects like politics will be discussed. Let us leave dead subjects to the dead!
Art, literature and music will play an important part in this blog as well as they are an integral part of this mystical tradition.
The title refers to the javânmard , the mystical knight, because chivalry is the very heart of the Shi'a tradition. At the same time it being a Persian word it reminds us of the Iranian heritage present in this tradition, not as an influence but rather like a progressio harmonica. After all isn't our Lord Imâm Sâhib e Zâman (atfs) the rightful heir of the Zoroastrian tradition as well through Imam Hussain's wife,Lady Shahr Bano (as), daughter of Yazdegard III?
Nâ Kojâ Âbâd refers to the spiritual world that the mystic has access to. It is a very real world, actually even more real than the phsyical world even though it is not to be found on any map. The map to find it is divine revelation and the journey to it is the mystical path.
The rose has a great significance in the Shi'a tradition. As the favourite flower of the Prophet (pbuh) it enjoys a great status. It stands for beauty and grace, the Feminine Divine but also the heart of the mystic.
The picture that I have chosen for the title of this blog is by an Iranian painter Hossain Nouri. It has a very mystical dimension to it a sort of nostalgia of paradise, a longing for the vision of spiritual beauty.It is called "The Evening of Ashura" and is a testimony to the spiritual victory that was Ashura. Most people just focuss on the pain of Ashura but the real dimension of Ashura is a spiritual victory against darkness.
The other reason why I chose this artist is that he himself embodies great chivalrous values. Handicapped due to torture under the Shah's regime he only paints with his mouth. When the horrible and disgusting Danish caricatures enraged the world, he painted a portrait of the Holy Virgin Mary in front of the Danish embassy in Tehran, thus showing the chivalrous attitude that is at the heart of Iranian Shi'a culture: responding to blasphemy and ugliness by art and devotion.
www.nuri-art.com/index-h.html
This is the ethos of the javânmard: to fight the forces of darkness with light and beauty.
Présentation
- : Javânmard and the roses of Nâ Kojâ Âbâd
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- : Javânmard: "He decided to separate himself from the masses, the tribe, to turn his back on his native country, to take on the pains and the burden of the journey, of the exile of pigrim of God. Javânmard is the pilgrim par excellence, the wandering knight, the homo viator." Corbin 1983: 220 in Corbin, Henry.1983. L'Homme et son Ange, Paris: Fayard.
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