"Shaykh Sanan and the Christian maiden" is a Persian mystical poem written by the Persian Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar. "Sheikh Sanan" is the longest story in the book The Conference of the Birds.
Shaikh Sanan and the Christian maiden, folio from a Safavid-era manuscript of Attar of Nishapur's Conference of the Birds, dated c. 1600
Shaykh San‘an and the Christian maiden, ascribed to Aqa Baqir and Mirza Baba. Created in Iran in the late 18th or early 19th century
Tilework depicting the story of Shaykh Sanan and the Christian maiden. Created by Mirza Abd ol-Razzaq Faghfuri, dated 1936
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The Kaaba, also spelled Kaʽba, Kaʽbah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Kaʽba al-Musharrafa, is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Hara
The Kaaba
The Black Stone is seen through a portal in the Kaaba.
"Muhammad at the Ka'ba" from the Siyer-i Nebi. Muhammad is shown with veiled face, c. 1595 CE.
Miniature from Jami' al-tawarikh, 706 AH (1306/1307 CE), depicting Muhammad and others moving the black stone into the Kaaba