Video Tour of the "Plants of the Qur’ān" Exhibition
Big thank you to Katherine Tyrrell at www.botanicalartists.com for her time and expertise for this amazing post covering off the book launch of “The Plants of the Quran, History and Culture” on the 17th June at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery Kew Gardens plus a video of the exhibition that we did together and had some fun. Please see the original post by Katherine and make sure to follow her blog to read a review of the book and many fascinated articles about botanical art and illustration past and present.
PLANTS AND PAINTINGS DISCUSSED IN THE VIDEO
The paintings discussed in the video include the following. The word in brackets is the name in the Qur’ān.- date palms (nakhl)
- date palm flowering stage
- date palm fruit
- fig (tīn)
- banana trees (talḥ)
- Ethiopian false banana
- banana
- pomegranate (rummān)
- pomegranate flower
- pomegranate fruit
- Castor oil (yaqṭīn)
- Snake Melon (qaththā)
- Gourd (yaqṭīn)
- Lentil (adas)
- Onion (baṣal)
- Garlic (thōm)
- Camphor / henna (kāfūr)