Mahmoud Obaidi (B. 1966, Iraq)
Farewell Kiss, 2012
shoes and glue on canvas, in twenty four parts
Conversation
Hugo Simberg
The Wounded Angel,1903
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Nja Mahdaoui
Ikhtilej
Indian ink on vellum and double membrane drums, in twenty parts.
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Paul Klee, Arab Song, 1932
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Baghdad, copper store 1932
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Al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, who was flogged, mutilated, then executed for refusing to retract his claim of oneness with God
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Even if I am abandoned,
abandonment will be my companion.
--Al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj
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I saw my Lord with the eye of the heart
He asked, ‘Who are You?’
I replied, ‘You’
--Al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj
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'The angel Ruh holding the celestial spheres’. Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini ‘s The Wonders of Creation & the Oddities of Existence. 13 c
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Replying to
ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt by Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203-1283)
