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Junayd Baghdādī (835-910) invites the Christian youth to accept Islam at the Sufi meeting, witnessed by Saqati, from Breaths of intimacy (Nafaḥāt al-uns), by Jāmī (d. 1492)

Title	Junayd Baghdādī (835-910) invites the Christian youth to accept Islam at the Sufi meeting, witnessed by Saqati, from Breaths of intimacy (Nafaḥāt al-uns), by Jāmī (d. 1492)
Publication Date:	1595 (1003H)
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	307 mm x 183 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	T 474.42
Library Location	Turkish collection
Date	1595 (1003H)
Notes	Junayd Baghdādī (835-910) invites the Christian youth to accept Islam at the Sufi meeting, witnessed by Saqati, from Breaths of intimacy (Nafaḥāt al-uns), by Jāmī (d. 1492). The poet and statesman Jāmī wrote this account of the lives of over six hundred great Sufis in history. In this biographical episode, the Sufi shaykh Junayd Baghdādī (d. 910, seated on the minbar steps in this painting) held a meeting at dawn, and a crowd gathered to hear him speak. Unnoticed, a young Christian man also joined the meeting in the mosque, and asked a searching question. On the insightful shaykh’s invitation, he decided to convert to Islam. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (verso), from Breaths of intimacy from presences of sanctity (Nafaḥāt al-uns min ḥaẓarāt al-quds), by `Abd al-Raḥmān Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (1414-1492), biographies of great sufis, originally composed in 1478, colophon (in main codex T 474, fol. 350r) unsigned, Baghdad, Iraq, dated Shawwal 1003H, June 1595.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Yazı Tipi	Nasta'liq script

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Junayd Baghdādī (835-910) invites the Christian youth to accept Islam at the Sufi meeting, witnessed by Saqati, from Breaths of intimacy (Nafaḥāt al-uns), by Jāmī (d. 1492)

Publication Date 1595 (1003H)

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 307 mm x 183 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID T 474.42

Library Location Turkish collection

Date 1595 (1003H)

Notes Junayd Baghdādī (835-910) invites the Christian youth to accept Islam at the Sufi meeting, witnessed by Saqati, from Breaths of intimacy (Nafaḥāt al-uns), by Jāmī (d. 1492). The poet and statesman Jāmī wrote this account of the lives of over six hundred great Sufis in history. In this biographical episode, the Sufi shaykh Junayd Baghdādī (d. 910, seated on the minbar steps in this painting) held a meeting at dawn, and a crowd gathered to hear him speak. Unnoticed, a young Christian man also joined the meeting in the mosque, and asked a searching question. On the insightful shaykh’s invitation, he decided to convert to Islam. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (verso), from Breaths of intimacy from presences of sanctity (Nafaḥāt al-uns min ḥaẓarāt al-quds), by `Abd al-Raḥmān Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (1414-1492), biographies of great sufis, originally composed in 1478, colophon (in main codex T 474, fol. 350r) unsigned, Baghdad, Iraq, dated Shawwal 1003H, June 1595.

Materyal Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Yazı Tipi Nasta'liq script