Need help identifying contents of a manuscript
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Topic: Need help identifying contents of a manuscript
Posted By: Baal Melqart
Subject: Need help identifying contents of a manuscript
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2013 at 10:56
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There is no doubt that this is written in Persian and belongs to the post-Islamic period. Anyone can read it and tell me what it says or help me identify it. Help would be appreciated. ------------- Timidi mater non flet |
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Posted By: medenaywe
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2013 at 11:25
| Cyrus can! |
Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2013 at 15:24
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Baal, your Doc. isn't showing. ------------- "Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces". Unknown. |
Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2013 at 07:26
 ------------- What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture. |
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2013 at 04:36
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Painting seems to be not related to the text, in fact it has hidden the major part of the text, the only complete sentence located at the bottom of page which says "You don't know that every tribe which has the tradition of marriage, wants to prevent adultery." ------------- 
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Posted By: medenaywe
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2013 at 07:35
It looks logical."Innocent" lambs that escape from the flock are arrowed&cut....
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Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2013 at 07:46
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It might be an allegory, so the golden creatures may be their women folk. ------------- What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture. |
Posted By: Baal Melqart
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2013 at 07:57
Thanks Cyrus for the help. Do you have any wild guess as to what sort of manuscript this is? ------------- Timidi mater non flet |
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2013 at 10:06
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I just searched part of the text in the web and found that it is a Persian translation of Usul al-Kafi, (vol.4, page 6) by Muhammad Kulayni (864 - 941 AD).
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Posted By: Baal Melqart
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2013 at 14:10
Great work man! Al-kafi is a prominent Shia scholar if I'm not mistaken? So this is some sort of theological treatise? ------------- Timidi mater non flet |
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2013 at 16:47
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Yes, the text seems to be so, but I don't understand the relation of the painting to it.
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Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 12-Sep-2013 at 09:25
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To me there's a suggestion that if indeed there is a connection between picture and text, that it might be saying guard your women, for they are precious, too precious to lose them to alternative traditions. My guess that if there's a religious context here, then tradition would mean religion, or type of the religion followed. I could be way out here. This is just my take on what has been said. ------------- What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture. |
Posted By: medenaywe
Date Posted: 12-Sep-2013 at 12:16
and if she "run away" just "kill" her...
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Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 12-Sep-2013 at 12:37
The suggestion might allow for that if interpreted that way, and I guess in a twisted way it could unfortunately.  ------------- What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture. |