At about time of midday prayer I  t e must  o question me about Elegant Effendi’s absence and s. Not only t,  er Osman. “Alloo ask you a question,” o Master Osman, ”time“ separates a true miniaturist from otime of tration.”  s? Listen closely.

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    tories on Painting and timeALIFty years ago,  reno calligrap only of t of all Islamdom; despite ranscribed ty-t of il te notion of time. oiled  by flickering candlelig of to us today because in torn up, sossed into tigris River by t as ter Arab calligraped to tion of tence of tradition and books, uries been in t of resting tion against blindness by turning to toern  of t Mosque in to prayer, nessed all t uries-long tradition of scribal art. First, iless soldiers enter Bag op t. cruction of tire city, ter of  of truction of tens of to tigris. ter, amid tenccers of tigris, turned red from t of t about ranscribed in beautiful script, t  served to stop tation, and in turn, o e again. Furtruck o express er nessed ting,  day, tled and deemed an affront to Allaed . e oration folloo t element istry of pagans and Cians; t is, to truly agonizing depiction of ted Godlike position attained by drao to Ibn Ser tnessed—in tion tings and tion for illustration in ; in brief