Sanctuary of Shah Nematollah Vali

Sanctuary of Shah Nematollah Vali

The sanctuary of Seyed Nur Al-Din Nematollah Ben Mohammad Ben Kamal Al-Din Yahia Kaveh Banāni Kermāni known as Shāh Nematollah Vali or Seyed Nur Al-Din Shāh Nematollah Vali Māhāni Kermāni, is the burial place of the famous mystic, scholar and great poet Iranian (730-832 Lunar Egira) located in the city of Māhān (Kermān region).

This historical-religious construction dates back to the Safavid era. The original building was a quadrangular room covered by a domed arch inside a large garden that was erected in the 840 year of the lunar Hegira and in subsequent periods other buildings were built next to it.

The Shāh Nematollah Vali shrine comprises a complex of buildings from different historical periods (six centuries, from the Timurids to the Qajari) and each one, considering its historical past, shows a part of the Islamic Iranian architectural style with decorative elements such as tile and stucco work , i muqarnas and painting.

This historic place of pilgrimage has three open courtyards at the front with a tub and a grove of trees, two entrance portals, small and large rooms, majolica minarets, the Shāh Abbāsi or Dar Al-Hafāz portico with a steel portal on which it is engraved in relief the name of the twelve Imams (A), the courtyard Vakili or Vakil ol-Molki or Mahdie, the courtyard Atābaki, the courtyard Mirdāmād with that Shāh Abbāsi, the courtyard Hosseinyeh or Beigalrabigi with minarets of the height of 42 meters ending in the Motavali Bāshi house.

This house has been transformed into a "traditional garden hotel Motavali Bāshi of Māhān". In the construction of the entrance doors that probably were made in India, geometric designs inlaid in the wood and pieces of elephant ivory were used.

Under the turquoise tomb is the mausoleum of Shāh Nematollah Vali whose tomb is made of marble and on which a verse of the Koran was written around which the names of the twelve Imams (A) are reported. In one part of the tomb there is a small decorated space that was the site of the chelleneshini (period of adoration, prayer and devotion that lasted forty days) of Shāh Nematollah Vali.

Museum

At the top of the entrance vestibule is the Shāh Nematollah museum, the library and the mausoleum of Amir Nezām Garousi (politician, scholar and well-known face of the qajara era). The stucco and brick building of the ancient 130 museum is known as the Amirieh palace or portal and was once the gathering place for Sufis and Dervishes.

In this museum i kashkúl (bowls with chain) embellished with calligraphy and drawings (the most important symbol of the dervishes), sculpted axes (small axes that the dervishes wore on their shoulders) together with inlaid swords with leather lining, rhino leather and steel shields, books of calligraphy, lithographs and rare prints, some pateh, termeh, and shawls, ceramic and crystal vessels are among the valuable objects kept in the museum.     

Next to this complex is a caravanserai which dates back to the qajara era and is currently semi-destroyed. A songbook of poems including qaside (panegyristic hatreds), ghazal (lyrics), tarjih band (stanzas with rhyme of the type qasida united by a verse refrain), masnavi (long poem in couplets with kissed rhymes), qet'e (Fragments) do beiti (double couplet), robā'i (quatrains), a book of instructions and the treatises of Shāh Nematollah Vali, are included in his publications

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