13.5x20.5 inches; Watercolour, pen and ink over graphite pencil on handmade paper (Click on image to enlarge)
Another
painting I did for a dear friend and patron. Dr. Scott Kugle, has been reproduced
on the book cover of his latest publication – Hajj To The Heart.
This piece is
my vision of legendary voyages across the turbulent oceans in quest for physical
and spiritual survival which transforms and awakens people to their greater
purpose in life.
About the
book -
“Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mystics from India to Arabia. At the center is the influential Sufi scholar Shaykh ĘżAli Muttaqi and his little-known network of disciples.
The story expands across three generations of peripatetic Sufi masters in the Mutaqqi lineage as they travel for purposes of pilgrimage, scholarship, and sometimes simply for survival along Indian Ocean maritime routes linking global Muslim communities. Exploring the political intrigue, scholarly debates, and diverse social milieus that shaped the colorful personalities of his Sufi subjects, Kugle argues for the importance of Indian Sufi thought in the study of hadith and of ethics in Islam.” - quoted from the publisher's note regarding the book.
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