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Summary
Object
The Prophet Muhammad’s night ride (mi‘raj) on Buraq, and the Aqsa mosque
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| Title |
The Prophet Muhammad’s night ride (mi‘raj) on Buraq, and the Aqsa mosque |
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| Part of |
Falnamah ('Book of Divination')  |
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| Object type |
painting |
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| Description |
English: The Prophet Muhammad’s night ride (mi‘raj) on Buraq, and the Aqsa mosque
‘The picture of His Holiness [Muhammad] arriving on Buraq for Ascension at night, and the angels diffusing light for him, and the picture of the Aqsa Mosque’. This Falnamah ('Book of Divination') is one of the few complete — or near complete — copies of the work to have survived. It consists of a series of 35 double-page openings, each with a large min ... See full description on web site. |
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| Depicted people |
Muhammad |
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| Date | circa 1610-30 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | ink, opaque watercolour, gold and silver on paper; 19th-century Indian binding of green leather with gold-tooled frames in a European manner | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
MSS 979 Folio 12b (Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art) |
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| Place of creation | India, the Deccan, probably Golconda | ||||||||||||||||||||
| References |
https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/islamic-art/khalili-collection-islamic-art-falnamah-mss979/ (English) |
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Photograph
| Description | Falnamah ('Book of Divination') |
| Source | Khalili Collections |
| Author | Khalili Collections |
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| Media from the Khalili Collections uploaded by User:MartinPoulter (KC WIR) are released under CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO. | ||
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