My father Hajj Ali Akbar Maktabi With a souvenir picture with several nomadic and tribal Derviche Sufi Masters from the midle east visiting Isfahan Iran 1925 during a collective and religious meeting on the occasion of Mevlana Jalaleddine Rumi Birthday.
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My grand father Hajj Ali Akbar Maktabi last souvenir picture sittting in his official chair in Isfahan Iran in 1910. Hajj Ali Akbar Maktabi is the founder of the Maktabi family and who have served Mevlana Jaleleddine Rumi Mevlevi Derviche Sufi Order in Isfahan until his death.
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My father Hajj Ali Akbar Maktabi with 4 unique 17th century authentic carpets bought in central Asia during his journey to Samarkand to visit a dervich sufi master. These pieces were sold to european carpets collectors. This picture was taken in 1925.
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Aliakbar Maktabi
Ethnographic Private Sufi Museum is a unique museum collection with a wide
variety skills of nomadic art and tribal sufism from Iran, Afganistan, Turkey
and other arab countries in the midle east.
My grand father
Aliakbar Maktabi was born in Esfahan - Iran 1850. He
was a tribal handmade carpet weaver, a poet, a teacher in the mathnawee
values, sufism, mysticism and islamic philosophy.
In addition to his
profession he was devoting most of his free time in serving in Esfahan the Sufi
Mevlevi order of the mythtic master and philosophe Maulana Jaleddine
Roumi.
He had strong relations
with many sufi derviche masters as well as nomadic and tribal chiefs. he
established, supported, financed and created many small handweaving
persian and oriental carpets workshops and set a standard to follow until his death in
1920 in Esfahan.
My father then
inherited the old business as
well as a wide collection of genuine handwriteen manuscripts such as holly
korans decorated with golden miniature and many manuscripts in mysticim, sufism,
poetry, medecine, chariaa law as well as fine collection of embroidered textiles
with silver and gold plated threads, derviche sufi nomadic and tribal
costumes, kilims, brass, cooper, silver, glass, pottery, ceramic and
nomadic sufi decorative items.
My father
Aliakbar Maktabi created strong relations with
the tribal and the nomadic chiefs and expanded their handweaving of
persian and oriental carpets from Iran to other arab countires, Europe, America
and Japan after gaining a high reputation for the high quality of
production.
In 1920 during his first
trip pilgrimage to Mekka, he visited several sufi
masters as well as nomadic and tribal chiefs in Turkey, Irak, Palestine, Syria
and Lebanon where he got married a master sufi daughter and established for
himself a second home and a business center for his production in Damscus
for genuine handmade persian and oriental carpets.
My father liked very much
Lebanon, which was the pearl of the orient and had a
wish and a vision of establishing a private ethnographic museum in which he
could display all mystic ideas of sufism to the rest of the world, including his
private collection.
On his 100 anniverssary
birthsay occasion we decided to dedicate this museum in memory of our
beloved father who passed away in 1950 and our beloved mother who passed away in
1975 and will named as Aliakbar Maktabi Ethnographic Private
Sufi Museum.
As this private collection
is testamented as a donnation to a humanitarian welfare assossiation for the
blind, therefore nothing is offered for sale.
We like to get in touch
with all cultural organizations, museums, universities, collectors and amateurs
interested in ethnographic sufi derviche, nomadic and tribal arts and
crafts.
Kindly email us for any
request or information.
Aliakbar
Maktabi Ethnographic Private Sufi Museum will be financially supported
by Aliakbar Maktabi Foundation for weaving
tribal persian and oriental carpets and kilims.
For more informations
about our projects in handweaving persian and oriental tribal rugs and
carpets and kilims we recommand to visit our internatinal and export sale
web at:
www.aliakbar-maktabi-tribalrugs.com
Hope you enjoy visiting
oue web museum collection and aprreciate the wonders, arts, skills and
crafts of the sufi derviche nomadic and tribal artists in order to find peace
and tranquility in your spirit and soul.
God bless
you.
Aliakbar Maktabi
Ethnographic Private Sufi Museum
Beirut
Lebanon
My father Hajj Ali Akbar Maktabi in his golden age busisness period with his new Ford car bought specially for his business journeys between Iran and the midlle east with his cousin Hajj Ali Asghar Maktabi. This picture was taken in Beirut Lebanon in 1930. |
Hajj Ali Akbar Maktabi young brother transporting carpets on the back of a donkey from a rural nomadic and tribal locations in iran. Picture taken in 1930.
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My father Hajj Ali Akbar Maktabi resting with his assistants and with their donkey carrying a valuabel collection of antique carpets bought from nomadic and tribal houses in north east of Iran and sold to european carpets collectors. This picture was taken in 1930.
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Aliakbar Maktabi
Ethnographic Private Sufi Museum hope you will enjoy looking at our museum webside
and appreciate the art, the craft and the skill of the sufi tribal and nomadic
handweavers and artis productions and to have a chance to make a meditation trip
through this web exhebition
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