Coco de mer Sufi Dervish Kashkul begging bowl

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Coco de mer Sufi Dervish Kashkul begging bowl:
$3570.00

(kashkole or kash-cole begging bowl) Very old intricately carved Coco-de-Mer inscribed in Nastalig calligraphi script, with prayers, figures and history of Ali and his family, believed to be the first Sufi profit.On top, Bismillah Arrahmar-ar-rahim (God the most merciful). Praise of Hazrat Ali - nephew and son--in-law of Prophet Mohammad and other Sufi phrases in Arabic. In circle at the bottom, the name of Ali and his family.More Detail:Sufi are of the Shea Islamic people who used the kashkul, hung from the shoulder by metal chains, which serves as a drinking bowl and carries food donations on which Sufi dervishes and wandering ascetics rely. The bowl symbolized the emptying of the Sufi-s ego through the reunivication of worldly goods and the aspirations. The earliest examples date to the thirteenth or fourteenth century, and their form may have been derived from crescent and boat-shaped wine bowls made in pre-Islamic Iran. This begging bowl is carved with many images of the 12 Imam hole men who spread the word of Mohammed after his death. Other images are of the first profit, Ali, his wife Fatima, their daughter and son Hassan, carved on the bottom of the bowl on horseback in the Shea and Suni war in the 7th century. Coco de Mer is the hard woody shell of the largest seed from a palm native to the Seychelles. The Republic of Seychelles is an archipelago of 155 small tropical islands, some granite and some coral, in the Indian Ocean northeast of Madagascar.