{"id":287,"date":"2017-09-09T15:36:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/?p=287"},"modified":"2017-09-09T15:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:40:27","slug":"letter-is-a-veil-veil-is-a-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Letter is a Veil, Veil is a Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-276\" src=\"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/niffari-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1197\" height=\"1730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/niffari-1.jpg 1197w, https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/niffari-1-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/niffari-1-768x1110.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/niffari-1-709x1024.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1197px) 100vw, 1197px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Text: &#8220;Letter is a veil, veil is a letter&#8221;, a saying form the &#8220;Book of Spiritual Stayings&#8221; (<em>Kitab al-Mawaqif<\/em>) of the Islamic mystic al-Niffari (d. 965)<\/p>\n<p>Size &amp; script: 210x290mm,\u00a0<em>Thuluth, Ijazah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Materials and tools: thick green paper, white paper for the roundel, golden gouache, black ink, reed and metal nib pens<\/p>\n<p>A small work made in 2004. It relies on the mirror usage of the word &#8220;Letter&#8221; above, and reminds of the Islamic mysticism view that letters are but symbols that obscure true nature; knowledge is acquired by intuition and illumination, and not by means of reason clothed in words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text: &#8220;Letter is a veil, veil is a letter&#8221;, a saying form the &#8220;Book of Spiritual&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.inscriber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}