خلاصة:
Focusing on survived documentaries to understand more on religious rituals is a fundamental purpose of understanding religious agency and how they are manifested in society. Pilgrimage is a ritual and mode of worship in Islam, encompassing visits to sacred places and innocent figures. Several objects and symbols that are represented and depicted in the form of sacred images have been produced in diverse dimensions over the centuries. Pilgrimage scrolls can be considered evident examples that can be significant sources for examining the historical trajectory of religions, since they depict several locations, objects, symbols, and religious ceremonies. This study tried to introduce a textual-visual pilgrimage scroll kept in the Library and Documentation Center of Astan Quds Razavi. The results showed that there are some survived scrolls in the centers, libraries, and museums over the glove, and the scroll kept in the Astan Quds Razavi is similar to the Nippur scroll, but can be considered a complete extant visual representation and be complement of each other for analyzing pilgrimage scrolls. The scroll kept in the Astan Quds Razavi deserves to be examined not only at is a pilgrimage scroll but also from a mystical-Sufi perspective. This specific scroll embraces the unique depictions of the Shiite pilgrimage symbols and some part of symbols pertaining to the narrative of the Prophet Muhammad’s ascension (Me’raj). The depicted religious seeker goes through Mecca, visits sacred places, and ultimately arrives at the holy shrine of Imam Reza. He awaits gazing the continuation of the path that only the perfect human being, that is, Prophet Muhammad, has successfully went through and reached the absolute light. This pilgrimage scroll crystalizes the delicate and keen insight of its illustrator as it is featured with the entirety of the pilgrimage in the journey towards the origin of divinity.
ملخص الجهاز:
The images of this scroll are prepared in a vertical-horizontal shape, and each section of the pilgrimage journey to the holy site, along with the graves of great figures, religious personalities, and related artifacts and objects, is placed within a column and separated from other parts by horizontal and vertical lines.
Morphology of domes in the scroll Discontinuous double-shell Types of domes in the Razavi Holy Shrine pilgrimage scroll, images in the appendix Religious topography of the shrine building Hazrat Khadija al-Kubra at the Jannat al-Mualla shrine, Goharshad Mosque in Mashhad Ribbed dome Ibn Abbas Mosque in Taif - Shams Mosque in Najaf al-Ashraf, Har al-Shahid - House of Hazrat Sahib al-Zaman (aj) Discontinuous double-shell dome with brickwork Shrine of the Prophet (s) in Medina - Hazrat Abbas (as) بيت المقدس Onion dome Continuous double-shell cone Single-shell ribbed dome Minaret-shaped dome Discontinuous double-shell dome Minaret dome, similar to discontinuous double-shell Concepts and symbols Dome of Imam Ali (as) in Najaf al-Ashraf - Karbala al-Mualla Ismail Gold Basin Muslim's children - Kadhimayn (as), Askariyin (as) Goharshad Mosque in Mashhad Imam Reza (as) in Mashhad Symbols are considered one of the main pillars of pilgrimage scrolls in expressing religious action.
(Ibid (18)) Furthermore, the devotion and interest in the Shia Imams and their holy shrines continued during the Qajar period through the vow, endowment, and donation of lighting objects and equipment; the installation of chandeliers and chandeliers in the images of the pilgrimage scroll is evidence of the importance of this matter.
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