A CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL
A CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL

INSCRIBED AHMAD BIN AL-SUHRAWARDI, PROBABLY BAGHDAD, WITH DATE OF AH 7[0]1/1301-02 AD

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A CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL
INSCRIBED AHMAD BIN AL-SUHRAWARDI, PROBABLY BAGHDAD, WITH DATE OF AH 7[0]1/1301-02 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, with 2ll. of extremely elegant thuluth, above 3ll. of small neat naskh framed by further zig-zag lines of calligraphy, one with possibly added signature and date, each of the lines with double black intercolumnar rule, some scuffing, laid down between red, white and blue minor borders on wide grey card mount
Text panel 5¼ x 7 7/8in. (13.4 x 20cm.); folio 11¾ x 16 1/8in. (29.8 x 41cm.)

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The text here includes a saying in Arabic, a line from a qasida of the pre-Islamic poet al-Shanfara, and a conversation between Buran, the daughter of the Vizier al-Hasan ibn Sahl, and the Caliph al-Ma'mun.

This panel bears the possibly added signature of Ahmad bin al-Suhrawardi. Recognised as one of the sitta, Suhrawardi is probably Yaqut's most famous pupil. Though little is recorded of his life, he is known to have belonged the Suhrawardiyya, an important Sufi order founded by his great-grandfather. He spent most of his life in Baghdad, and according to Qadi Ahmad, designed most of the texts inscribed on buildings there. Works on paper by him are dated between AH 701-732/1301-1332 AD (Sheila Blair, Islamic Calligraphy, Edinburgh, 2008, p.249). Were this signature to be believed therefore, this would be amongst his earliest recorded works.