Siyer-i Nebi

Siyer-i Nebi
The birth of Muhammad in the Siyer-i-Nebi
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ReligionIslam
AuthorMustafa of Erzurum
LanguageOttoman Turkish
PeriodEra of Transformation

Siyer-i Nebi (Ottoman Turkish: سیر نبی) is an Ottoman epic on the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, completed around 1388, written by Mustafa (son of Yusuf of Erzurum, known as al-Darir), a Mevlevi dervish on the commission of Sultan Barquq, the Mamluk ruler in Cairo. The text is based on the 13th-century writings of Abu’l Hasan al-Bakri and Ibn Hisham (d. 833). This epic would later be illustrated by Mustafa ibn Vali in the late 16th century, as commissioned by his patron, Sultan Murad III.[1]

  1. ^ ""The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 11 July 2022.