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within the room; enough light to please a humble Chinese illustrator。 I could

not  fully  see  Enishte  Effendi’s  face  as  he  sat;  as  usual;  before  a  low;  folding

reading  desk;  so  that  the  light  fell  to  his  left  side。  I  tried  desperately  to

recapture  the  intimacy  between  us  when  we’d  painted  miniatures  together;

gently  and  quietly  discussing  them  all  night  by  candlelight  amid  these

burnishing stones; reed pens; inkwells and brushes。 I’m not sure if it was out

of this sense of alienation or out of embarrassment; but I was ashamed and

held back from openly confessing my misgivings; at that moment; I decided to

explain myself through a story。

Perhaps you’ve also heard of the artist Sheikh Muhammad of Isfahan? There

was  no  painter  who  could  surpass  him  in  choice  of  color;  in  his  sense  of

symmetry; in depicting human figures; animals and faces; in painting with an

effusiveness  bespeaking  poetry;  and  in  the  application  of  an  arcane  logic

reserved for geometry。 After achieving the status of master painter at a young

age; this virtuoso with a divine touch spent a full thirty years in pursuit of the

most fearless innovation of subject matter; position and style。 Working in

the Chinese black…ink style—brought to us by the Mongols—with skill and an

elegant  sense  of  symmetry;  he  was  the  one  who  introduced  the  terrifying

demons;  horned  jinns;  horses  with  large  testicles;  half…human  monsters  and

giants  into  the  devilishly  subtle  and  sensitive  Herat  style  of  painting;  he  was

the first to take an interest in and be influenced by the portraiture that had

e by Western ships from Portugal and Flanders; he reintroduced forgotten

techniques dating back to the time of Genghis Khan and hidden in decaying

old  volumes;  before  anybody  else;  he  dared  to  paint  cock…raising  scenes  like

Alexander’s peeping at naked beauties swimming on the island of women and

Shirin bathing by moonlight; he depicted Our Glorious Prophet ascending on

the  back  of  his  winged  steed  Burak;  shahs  scratching  themselves;  dogs

copulating  and  sheikhs  drunk  with  wine  and  made  them  acceptable  to  the

entire  munity  of  book  lovers。  He’d  done  it;  at  times  secretly;  at  times

openly;   drinking   large   quantities   of   wine   and   taking   opium;   with   an

enthusiasm  that  lasted  for  thirty  years。  Later;  in  his  old  age;  he  became  the

disciple  of  a  pious  sheikh;  and  within  a  short  time;  changed  pletely。

ing  to  the  conclusion  that  every  painting  he’d  made  over  the  previous

thirty years was profane and ungodly; he rejected them all。 What’s more; he

devoted the remaining thirty years of his life to going from palace to palace;

from city to city; searching through the libraries and the treasuries of sultans

and kings; in order to find and destroy the manuscripts he’d illuminated。 In

whichever  shah’s;  prince’s  or  nobleman’s  library  he  found  a  painting  he’d

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