Musa va 'Uj
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Musa va 'Uj is a 15th-century manuscript painting from Iran or Iraq. The painting is not signed by any artist, nor does it have an original title—in scholarly literature it has become known by the tit
The Giant 'Uj and the Prophets Moses, Jesus and Muhammad Khalili Collection Islamic Art HIGHRES
Detail of the Virgin Mary and Jesus
The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art includes 26,000 objects documenting Islamic art over a period of almost 1400 years, from 700 CE to the end of the twentieth century. It is the largest o
Musa va 'Uj
…and Child, and Moses. Some of Muhammad's successors and family are also shown. First described in the 1930s, the painting was later acquired by the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. The manuscript folio is 38 centimetres (15 in) high and 24.8 centimetres (9.8 in) wide. The painting is mostly contained within a rectangle 25.6…
Folio from an exemplar of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh made for Tahmasp I; Tabriz, Iran, 1520–1550
Single-volume Quran, Istanbul, 1778 AD
Single folio from the Codex Parisino-petropolitanus, one of the earliest surviving Qurans, probably Mecca or Medina, 7th or 8th century AD
Noah's Ark, from the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh of Rashid al-Din, Tabriz, 1314–15