Miniature: Indian Sufi, 13th century, copy

"In the temporal world, the essence of which is dust,
Don't give up the unimportant things in captivity
Things in the world count only the spirit is omnipresent,
Alien to any real change."

( Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat).

Sufism is a mystical trend in Islam,one of the main areas of classical Islamic philosophy.Emerged in the late 7th century. The goal of Sufism is to educate the "perfect man", which is free from the mundane and managed to rise above the negative qualities of his nature. Sufism has inspired his followers, he revealed the deep qualities of the soul and played a big role in the development of aesthetics, ethics, literature and art. The followers of Sufism called Sufi.

A copy of the engraving of the 13th century is made on aged parchment paper with tempera and watercolor, inserted into a craft pocket, in the form of a passepartout.