Reading a Persian carpet inscription

[Jochen]

Hi!

Now after moving to our new house we are arranging the rooms. We have found an somewhat older Persian carpet in our fund with a strange Arabic inscription on it. There are two lines in the book above and then the big block below. Anyone who can translate the inscription into English? I hope that it is a reasonable text at all and not only a decorative pattern.

Thanks in advance

Best regards

[Nassif]

Hi;
As you said ,it's a persian carpet and it's somewhat different from Arabic script;in general we can find similar words like:"Al cheikh Ali" which has[i guess] same meaning in both arabic & persian..Somebody more qualified than me in persian can do the translation for you..
Regads.
Nassif

[Jochen]

Hi Nassif!

Thanks for the hint. So I will change the headline.

Best regards

[earnest940]

this is my personal comment: Sheikh Ali Said ar rahmetehu. (May Rahmet be upon on Sheikh Ali Said)     and in the label above: az kulistan.. I don't know its meaning maybe 'from the rose garden' 

Sincerely... 

[Jochen]

Thanks

Jochen

[Bogdan C]

Gulistan was a Golden Horde mint, but also a modern rug carpet manufacturing enterprise  :

<<Gulistan Carpet began manufacturing under the Gulistan name in 1924, but the company’s roots go back to an Armenian textile importer who founded a business in Turkey in 1818. His only children, Arshag and Miran Karagheusian, inherited their father’s business. The brothers moved to London in 1896 and stated an import-export business but soon relocated to the United States.

Their first Oriental, or “Persian”, rug shipment arrived in the U.S. from Turkey in 1899, and New Yorkers flocked to the Karagheusian company showroom, decorated by Tiffany Studios.>>