Miraj Nameh

The version of the Miraj Nameh (Mirâj Nâmeh) in the National Library of France, "supplément turc 190" is an Islamic manuscript created in the fifteenth century, in the workshops of Herat in Khorasan (modern Afghanistan), at the request of Shahrukh Mirza, son of Timur.

The text is written in Eastern Turkic language and was composed between 1436 and 1437 (840 in the Islamic calendar).

The text was composed by the poet Mir Haydar in Eastern Turkic, with calligraphy by Malik Bakhshi of Herat in the Uighur script.

"The journey appears as a climb during which the angel Gabriel leads Muhammad from Mecca to the Farthest Mosque in Jerusalem, and thence to the Seventh Heaven, where they received the founder of Islam in ecstatic contemplation of the divine essence.

The book was bought in 1673 in Constantinople by the famous translator of The Thousand and One Nights, Antoine Galland (1646-1715).