Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Qissat Biyad wa Riyad ( The story of Bayad and Riyad ). Bayad was a merchants son from Damascus. Riyad a well educated girl and daughter of a vizier or minister in Mesopotomia (present day Iraq) . This manuscript "bayad plays oud to the lady" is believed to be the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived from eight centuries of muslim presence in spain. Manuscript is in the vatican library. #heritage #islam #sufi #poetry #manuscript #spain #songs #devotion #mystic #culture by omerkhan70



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