Happy Nowruz

20 March 2025

خجسته باد نوروز و بهارت

چنین نوروز بگذاران هزاران

May your Nowruz and spring be blessed,
May you experience such a Nowruz a thousand times.

(Qatran of Tabriz, d. after 1088)

The Beyond Sharia Team wishes everyone a wonderful Nowruz, may you have a healthy, prosperous, and peaceful year ahead of you.

Here is a performance by the vitreous Ali Ghamsari and ensemble, celebrating the arrival of Nowruz in the garden of the Academy Building of Utrecht University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exqRl7msb7A

Bowl with a Majlis Scene by a Pond, Abu Zayd al-Kashani, dated 582 AH/1186 CE. (Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art, object nr. 64.178.1)