Bismillah.JPG

Summary

Description

Calligraphy of the "Basmala" phrase phrase bismi-llāhi ar-raħmāni ar-raħīmi بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم in in the form of a pear.

Right leaf: "Qāla allāh ta'ālā" ("The sublime God said").

Left: "Wa innahu min Sulaymān" ("And it is from Solomon" as the Basmala first apears in the Qur'an in a letter from Solomon).

Date

1924 or 1925

Source

Aziz Efendi

Author

Below the pear: "katabahu al-shaykh Azīz al-Rufā'ī 1343" ("Shaykh Aziz al-Rufai wrote it 1924/1925").

Aziz Efendi died 1934-08-16 so the image is in the public domain. The en stated it was copyrighted.

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This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

The author died in 1934, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer .

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Other versions

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bismillah.JPG File history there:

(del) (cur) 04:19, 2 January 2006 . . AnonMoos (Talk) . . 512x792 (82104 bytes) (losslessly cropped and grayscaled image to get rid of colorfully decorative but non-functional border)
(del) (rev) 22:07, 1 January 2006 . . Maliki 786 (Talk) . . 641x896 (99685 bytes) ( http://www.uah.edu/msa/Images/b-pear%20depiction%20of%20Bismillah%20in%20thulth%20style.jpg )

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This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

The author died in 1934, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer .

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 80 years: Mexico has 100 years and Jamaica has 95 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term .

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that " faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain ".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

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1924

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