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![Sulaymân [Solomon], seated on an octagonal throne, discusses with an architect the divinely commanded building of the Bayt al-Muqaddas, a temple on Ascension Rock in Jerusalem, fol. 127v](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn6/L3Bob3RvLzE1ODAvMDEvMDEvc3VsYXltYW4tc29sb21vbi1zZWF0ZWQtb24tYW4tb2N0YWdvbmFsLXRocm9uZS1kaXNjdXNzZXMtd2l0aC1hbi1hcmNoaXRlY3QtYTYwZWUwLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/63/webp "Sulaymân [Solomon], seated on an octagonal throne, discusses with an architect the divinely commanded building of the Bayt al-Muqaddas, a temple on Ascension Rock in Jerusalem, fol. 127v")
The hardest stone, al-sâmûr or al-sâhûr. The prophet Sulaymân tricked an eagle into bringing him this stone, al-sâmûr, from a mountain of the same name in the west. Sulaymân sits on an animal-skin rug, with a dîv and the eagle nearby, f. 140
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1540 - 1545
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New York Public Library
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