紐約大都市藝術博物館的伊斯蘭展廳

據這期的經濟學人報道，紐約大都市藝術博物館今年十一月一日起，伊斯蘭展廳開幕了。15個展覽室裡面，展出了一共1200件作品，包括手工，紡織，玻璃，陶器，珠寶，油畫，科學儀器還有雕刻。這個展廳的建造，作品的搜集據說歷時八年，一共耗資耗資40百萬美元。據伊斯蘭學者評論，這裡面確實收集到了一些伊斯蘭最精細優美的藝術作品。

下面摘一組油畫：「伊斯蘭的誕生」（The Birth of Islam)



In the capital city of Herat, the scholar and writer Hafiz-i Abru was commissioned by the Timurid ruler Shah Rukh (r. 1405–47) to write a massive world history, beginning with Adam, as was traditional, down to his own time. The resulting manuscripts were heavily illustrated in a somewhat simplified but effectively direct style. In this picture, the angel Gabriel, whose role is to transmit God's revelations, appears as an actively commanding presence in complete contrast to the immobile, concentrated receptivity of the Prophet.

Many of the illustrations in this manuscript, in spite of the simplicity of their style—especially when compared to the highly polished and sophisticated paintings associated with Shah Rukh's son Baisunghur—are effective in their straightforward presentation. Here, the Prophet, perched atop the exaggerated hump of this dromedary, dominates the composition. His position, and that of his two attendants on foot, along the ground line, while harking back to the tradition of an earlier period, yet give them a distinct presence on the page. The mounted figures closely bunched together at the front of the procession seem positioned there to ensure that the Prophet will face no surprises on the journey.

The heavenly journey of the Prophet forms a centerpiece of Muslim piety. Persian poets from the thirteenth century onward prefaced their epics with a colorful description of the micraj, the heavenly journey that brought the Prophet into the immediate presence of God. This miniature is particularly interesting as the Prophet is shown with his face unveiled, riding on the mysterious mount Buraq. Later pictures of Muhammad generally show him with a veil covering his face, and in more recent times even his entire body is usually symbolized by a white cloud or a rose.

The text to which this detached page belonged, entitled The Murder of the House of the Prophet, tells the story of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn cAli, one of Muhammad's grandsons and cAli's son. His killing at the battle of Karbala, in Iraq, represented a turning point for the Muslim community and is the origin of the main division between Sunnis and Shici. In this illustration, the Prophet is seen preaching seated on his minbar, or pulpit, and cAli and his sons Hasan and Husayn are at Muhammed's left side. The holy characters are identified by their flaming haloes and are surrounded by the attentive audience. The scene takes place in the interior of the mosque in Medina.

Futuh al-Haramain is an example of a genre of religious writing devoted to the hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage. It serves as a guide to pilgrims in which the proper rituals and prayers accompany descriptions of the holy shrines in the cities of Mecca and Medina. Several copies of the manuscript contain diagrammatic views of the pilgrimage sites.

This illustration (on fol. 29 recto) shows the plain of cArafat, which is visited by the pilgrims during the second day of the hajj, together with the Mosque of Nimra on the left.

朝聖的人海很壯觀

說句不怎麼寬容的話：土財主氣很重。

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這幅比較富麗堂皇一些：

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這是今年的：



還是夜景漂亮：

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一個人的散熱功率大概100瓦，這幾十萬人的場面真得熱死人

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看到了一些介紹這個新開放的伊斯蘭藝術展廳的錄像，真想去看看呢~

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