[1] It is unusual in combining figures from all three Abrahamic religions: the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the Madonna and Child, and Moses.

Moses (Musa), with his face covered, is shown on the right of 'Uj, striking the giant's feet with a staff and drawing blood.

[2] In the lower part of the painting, Muhammad – his face veiled – sits on a geometrically patterned carpet, surrounded by the four caliphs who succeeded him: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali.

Outside this group, on the left, are two of Muhammad's companions including Bilal ibn Rabah who carries Dhulfiqar, a double-pointed sword.

[3] Later research by Eleanor Sims, editor of the journal Islamic Art, locates its creation to between 1460 and 1465 in either Tabriz or Shiraz.

[2] It is not known what manuscript it was part of, though it may have originally been the right-hand half of a frontispiece for Qisas al-Anbiya' (Stories of the Prophets).

[7] Two other paintings from the same period show Muhammad seated among his successor caliphs, his grandsons, and Bilal in a similar configuration.

[4] Other paintings from the period 1250 to 1500 AD gave Muhammad physical features, unlike Musa va 'Uj which shows him veiled and with a nimbus of golden flame.