"Coffin of Imam 'Ali", Folio from a Falnama (The Book of Omens) of Ja'far al-Sadiq | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Coffin of Imam AliIn this unusual illustration, a veiled figure leads a camel with a coffin, while two other veiled men watch from behind a hillside.[1] Later inscriptions identify them as the imans Hassan and Husayn, and the figure in the lower left is their father, Imam Ali

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