By Amir Oskouei July 29, 2025 Founder, Amir Textiles & Rugs – Researcher & Collector of Turkic Woven Art Introduction: The Forgotten Totem Across the highlands of the Caucasus, the plateaus of Iran, and the steppes of Central Asia, one creature has walked beside nomadic peoples for millennia — not merely as livestock, but as a spiritual companion, a provider, […]
The Qoca* “Harshangh” Misnomer: A Forgotten Sufi Symbol in Safavid Carpet Art By Amir Oskouei — June 30, 2025 For centuries, a distinctive motif frequently found in classical Safavid carpets has been referred to in the market as “Harshangh” (خرچنگ)—a Persian word meaning “crab.” Dealers and collectors alike have adopted this term, mistakenly associating the form with crustacean-like claws or […]
INTRODUCTION The Autonomous Republic of Nakhchevan, a province of Azerbaijan with a specific political status, is located in the middle Araxes basin along a major East-West axis, formerly known as the northern “Silk Road”. Of particular im-portance during the Middle Ages, this road used to link India to Europe, via Tabriz, Erzurum and then Constantinople through the great Anatolian highway. […]
nnotation. The article informs that the cave “Askhabi-kakhf”, which occupies a peculiar place in the belief system of the Nakhichevan population, is a sacred place. The author, casting a retrospective look at the period before the emergence of world religions, characterizes “Askhabi- Kakhf” as a center of sun worship of the ancient Turks and gives a list of sacred cults […]
Oval, Ellipsoid Calculation… It is very considerable that we can see existence of any being. And we know that it has initial state. Its initial state, initial state of all these structures was known to the first human on Earth. As the structure of this World is Oval type, Ellipsoid type and all beginnings are within its frameworks, its shape […]
JAFAROV Elman Maharram oglu was born on July 5, 1951 in the city of Nakhchivan. The sculptor is an artist. Honored Artist of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (1989). Studied at the Azerbaijan State Art School named after Azim Azimzade (1968-1972) and at the Faculty of Arts of the Azerbaijan State University of Arts (1975-1980). He was a member of the […]
When I started writing this note I firstly thought that there are not enough words to understand, comprehend Vahid Rzayev and the World of Divinity with Knowledge that he brought again; you should just read the texts that he wrote with great responsibility and very attentively, think and comprehend. By disposal of fortune I had to live in Nakhchivan during […]
Rzayev Vahid Zeynal (April 22, 1947 – September 21, 2018) was born in officer’s family in Nakhchivan city. In 1966 he finished the school No 1 in Nakchivan. From 1972 to 1992 he worked as a standardizer engineer in Nakhcivan Republic Department of U.S.S.R. State Committee of Standards. On November 9, 1987 Rzayev Vahid Zeynal was awarded with Certificate of […]
PREFACE to the Book Entitled “The Talk about Creation. Part I” by Fikrat Rzayev The Sacred Book entitled “Creation” (“Yaranish”) sent to mankind on Earth from Mercy and Kindness of the Great Creator was published in Baku in May, 1999. In this book the Great Creator informed people about Himself and His Saints (Angels), the structure and motions of the […]
Vahid Rzayev, who had not told anything about the Great Creator’s Sayings to anybody during long years, disclosed it for the first time to his brother Fikrat Rzayev by Permission of the Great Creator in 1997. Just Fikrat Rzayev initiated publication of the Great Creator’s Sayings in a book form (“Creation”) in 1999, and this made the Sayings sent by […]
