Iran/Persia: The Prophet Muhammad prohibiting intercalation. 14th century (Ilkhanate period) manuscript. The Prophet Muhammad preaching his final sermon to his earliest converts, on Mount Ararat near Mecca; taken from a medieval-era manuscript of the astronomical treatise 'The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries' by the Persian scholar al-Biruni; currently housed in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France. Representations of the Prophet are controversial, and generally forbidden in Sunni Islam (especially Hanafiyya, Wahabi, Salafiyya).

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