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	Buraq - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Buraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Buraq (pronounced bur-raaq), sometimes mistakenly described as Muhammad's horse, is, according to Islamic tradition the creature that carried Muhammad from Earth to heaven and back during the Isra and Miraj (Night Journey).
		:“I was brought by the Buraq, which is an animal white and long, larger than a donkey but smaller than a mule, who would place its hoof at a distance equal to the range of vision”.
		In literature and art, the buraq is often pictured as a beast with the face of a woman, or a creature described as being part eagle and part horse, in all probability, using the legend of Pegasus as inspiration.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Buraq.html (231 words)

	The Literary History of Persia, Volume 2: section 107
		His achievements and adventures during the remaining eight years of his life may be read in detail in the monograph of his secretary, an-Nasawi, of which not only the Arabic text but an excellent French translation has been published by M.
		His hand was against every man, for he had to contend not only with the Mongols, who were ever on his tracks, but with the faithlessness of his brother, Ghiyathu'd-Din, and the disloyalty of Buraq Hajib, the ruler of Kirman.
		And, as if this was not enough, he must needs attack the Caliph of Baghdad, chastise the Turkmans and the Assassins, and invade Georgia.
	persian.packhum.org /persian/pf?file=90001012&ct=107&rqs=68&rqs=491&rqs=893 (557 words)

	Jihad Watch: D.C. Watson: All it took was a cartoon
		From Jami Al-Tawarikh ("The Universal History" written by Rashid Al-Din), a manuscript in the Library of the University of Edinburgh; illustrated in Tabriz, Persia, c.
		The Night Journey of Muhammad on His Steed, Buraq; leaf from a copy of the Bustan of Sacdi, dated 1514.
		The “veil” which you are defending and which the “west” accuses Islam of keeping women behind is both a tribal remnant left over from before Islam came to be and also a means to control, dominate and subject a good portion of the society by Islamist and Despots.
	www.jihadwatch.org /archives/010205.php#more (13237 words)

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