Mystical reading of the painting of  Khovarnagh  Palace ’s build by Kamaleddin Behzad

Gholami Houjeghan, Fatemeh; Bolkhari Ghehi, Hassan; Sadri, Mina

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Mystical reading of the painting of Khovarnagh Palace ’s build by Kamaleddin Behzad

Fatemeh Gholami Houjeghan ^*¹

, Hassan Bolkhari Ghehi²

, Mina Sadri³

1- Department of Advance Art Studies, Faculty of Visual Art, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran , fat.gho.houjeghan@ut.ac.ir
2- Department of Advance Art Studies, Faculty of Visual Art, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
3- Faculty of Visual Art, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

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An illustrated copy of Khamsa Nizami preserved in the British Museum, compiled in the Timurid period, is world famous due to high artistic value of the paintings and the presence of painters such as Mirak, Behzad, and possibly Qasim-Ali and Abdul Razzagh. Also, its text is a valuable relic of Hakim Nizami, which is one of the most cited research works in the field of Persian literature. Nizami is one of the talented Persian poets, who not only has a separate method and style, but the influence of his style on Persian poetry is also quite evident in the poets after him. He had a great knowledge of the common knowledge of his time, including literary sciences, astronomy, philosophy, Islamic sciences, jurisprudence, theology, and Arabic literature, and this characteristic is reflected in his poems. Khamsa Nizami has been very popular with Persian painters and calligraphers and many copies of it have been reproduced in various periods from the Timurid era to the Qajar era, which are scattered in museums all over the world, and this is due to the special charm of Khamsa Nizami's romantic-mystical and sagacious stories. It is popular with audiences all over the world today and shows Nizami's ability to attract the collective unconscious of humanity. This magnificent collection includes 22 paintings, which are important in terms of showing the way people lived in the Timurid period and reflecting it in Persian paintings. On the other hand, Behzad is an outstanding artist who, in addition to accurately recording the daily life of the people, deeply adheres to the social concerns of his time and benefited from mystical references in his works, which is his close and deep connection with prominent mystics and poets(Jāmī and Nava'i) and mystical circles that are proof of this claim. In this regard, the painting of “Khovarnagh Palace ’s build” by Kamaleddin Behzad, was chosen due to the special paradox hidden in it, which is unprecedented in Behzad's artistic career, so that a deeper reading can be provided by discovering the possible mystical sources of the work. In this regard, the precious work of, Najmeddin Rāzi “Mersād al-Ebād”, is one of the important sources of Islamic mysticism, whose basics are useful in the mystical interpretation and has a lot of harmony and consonance with the present painting. In this regard, it is possible to use the theory of Razi's colorful lights in order to adapt it to Behzad's color selection in the direction of Razi's mystical views. To put it better, Razi's colorful lights is a bridge between Behzad's paintings and Razi's mystical works. The upcoming research is of a qualitative type and descriptive-analytical and interpretative method and it has benefited from library resources(real: available books - virtual: images and related websites).The results of the research indicate that the building of Khovarnagh Palace is a great symbol of the human format at the beginning of creation entertained by insatiable worldly ties in order to forget the nearness of the truth and the unseen world, and to join the world of sense, and Senmār (Khovarnagh Palace's architect) is also a manifestation of this attachment, who was caught by the burning lights of God's wrath. The glory and wrath of God engulfed and was destroyed him. A repeatable fate for those who have closed their hearts to the material world and got caught in its wrath.

Keywords: Khamsa Nizami Ganjavi, Khovarnagh Palace, Mersād al-Ebad, Najmeddin Rāzi, Kamaleddin Behzad

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Type of Study: Original Research | Subject: 2
Received: 2022/11/27 | Accepted: 2023/05/25 | Published: 2023/05/25

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