virtual-artifacts: Al-buraq, Copenhagen Nationalmuseet, Dept. of Ethnography; Inv. DA 758.
virtual-artifacts: Al-buraq, Copenhagen Nationalmuseet, Dept. of Ethnography; Inv. DA 758. The inspiration for the Al-buraq, according to T.W. Arnold, was drawn from many pre-Islamic representative traditions in western Asia, including the centaur of Babylon, the ‘man-headed bulls’ of Assyria and the Sphinx. -- source link