Arabia/Turkey: The Prophet Muhammad praying at the Kabaa in Mecca. Illustration by Nakkas Osman (fl. 16th century), Siyer i-Nebi, Istanbul, c. 1595. Nakkaş Osman (sometimes called Osman the Miniaturist) was the chief miniaturist for the Ottoman Empire during the latter half of the sixteenth century. The dates of his birth and death are uncertain, but most of his works are dated to the last quarter of the sixteenth century. The oldest known illustrations of Nakkaş Osman's were made between 1560 and 1570 for a Turkish translation of the Persian manuscript Firdausi's Shahnameh.

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