page_title: Buraq
hierarchical_section_title: Buraq
caption_attribution_description: English: Reproduction of 17th century Indian (Mughal) miniature - public domain
context_page_description: The Burāq is a mythical creature in Islamic tradition that was said to be a transport for certain prophets.
  Most notably hadith accounts about the Isra and Mi'raj recounts that the Buraq carried the Islamic prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem and up in the heavens and back by night.
context_section_description: The Burāq (Arabic: الْبُرَاق al-Burāq or /ælˈbʊrɑːk/ "lightning" or more generally "bright") is a mythical creature in Islamic tradition that was said to be a transport for certain prophets. 
  Most notably hadith accounts about the Isra and Mi'raj recounts that the Buraq carried the Islamic prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem and up in the heavens and back by night.
caption: Buraq on a reproduction of a 17th-century Mughal miniature
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