The Angel Gabriel Meets Amr ibn Zaid

جبريل يلقى عمرو بن زيد

"The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Lif; Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 1994.141.

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A page from an Ottoman Siyer-i Nebi manuscript: Gabriel meets Amr ibn Zayd the shepherd; about 1595, Turkey. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1

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islam.museum contributors. “The Angel Gabriel Meets Amr ibn Zaid”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/jibril-amr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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