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Strategies & Market Trends : The Bird's Nest

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From: clutterer4/10/2011 10:34:17 AM
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"Picturing the Prophet
This is an unusual example of the Prophet Muhammad pictured in an Islamic manuscript. It comes from a royal miniature made to illustrate a copy of the poems of the celebrated Persian Nizami, and depicts the Prophet's ascension to heaven on the horse Buraq.


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so barry obumble liked the name buraq better it seems....hmmmm....thought he said he was a Christian....hmmmm

Buraq From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
For other uses, see Buraq (disambiguation).

A Buraq seen on an reproduction of a 17th century Indian Mughal miniature.Al-Buraq (Arabic: ???????? al-Buraq "lightning") is a mythological steed, described as a creature from the heavens which transported the prophets. The most commonly told story is how in the 7th century, Al-Buraq carried the Islamic prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem and back during the Isra and Mi'raj or "Night Journey", which is the title


of one of the chapters (sura), Al-Isra, of the Qur'an.

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