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Eye of the beholder – how the Prophet Muhammad has been depicted through the centuries

18 December 2019

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‘The Prophet Muhammad encounters the angel of half-fire and half-snow’, miniature from a copy of al-Sarai’s Nahj al-Faradis (c. 1465), Herat.

‘The Prophet Muhammad encounters the angel of half-fire and half-snow’, miniature from a copy of al-Sarai’s Nahj al-Faradis (c. 1465), Herat. Courtesy David Collection, Copenhagen

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