Al-Mi'raj

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For the Night Journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, see Isra and Mi'raj.
Page depicting an Al-Miraj with a serpent, most likely from the tale of Alexander the Great defeating the serpent and receiving the Al-Miraj as a gift. From page 131 of the Bavarian Manuscript.[1]

Al-Mi'raj or Almiraj (Arabic: ٱلْمِعْرَاج‎ al-miʿrāj) is a mythical beast said to live on a mysterious island called Jazirah al-Tennyn (Sea-Serpent Island) within the confines of the Indian Ocean. It takes the form of a rabbit with a unicorn-like horn or horns. According to legend, the beast was a gift given to Alexander the Great from the inhabitants of the island after he killed a large dragon that had been eating the livestock of the people there.[2] It is mentioned in Zakariya Ibn Muhammad Al-Qazwini's Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing (often shortened to The Wonders of Creation).[1][3]

From the Walters Manuscript - Walters Museum of Art Baltimore, MD [3]

Pop culture references[]

Al-Mi'raj has been occasionally featured in video and role-playing games.

  • Al-Mi'raj has been adapted into Dungeons & Dragons, as part of the 1st edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Fiend Folio.
  • An enemy in the Dragon Quest series (アルミラージ ... arumirāji), first appearing in Dragon Quest III, where it is a low-level monster with a sleep attack used to render players helpless while it attacks. In U.S. localizations it has usually been renamed to "Spiked Hare", but its name is preserved in the Game Boy Color version [4] Unlike the normal legendary Miraj, this Mi'raj is purple with a white horn and white cheeks.
  • In Episode 10 of the anime Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? the first floor of the mid level contains multiple white rabbits that walk on two legs and which are identified as al-mi'raj.
  • In the animated short "Red" (2010), the little wolf-boy protects Red from an al-mi'raj that can grow to a monstrous size.
  • The Yu-Gi-Oh! Breakers of Shadow booster pack features a card based on this mythical creature called Al-Lumi'raj, and the Battles of Legend: Hero's Revenge pack features another called Salamangreat Almiraj.
  • The game Rage of Bahamut (and subsequently the Shadowverse CCG, which is based on it) contains a character called Moon Al-Mir'aj, a humanoid rabbit with a black horn called Ramina.
  • In the Donald Duck story "Mythological Menagerie", Donald tries to fool Huey, Dewey and Louie by painting a rabbit yellow and attaching a horn to it, but the nephews identify it as a Mi'Raj.
  • In Brave Frontier, Al-mi'raj is a common light-element unit, depicted as a white rabbit with tufts of blue fur and a golden horn.
  • In the episode 8 of Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World season 2, multiple al-mi'raj appear in a vast and snowy plain as Subaru is standing in the middle of them.
An Al-Mir'aj from Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing by Zakariya Ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (1203-1283 AD)[citation needed]

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References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Qazwini, Zakariya Ibn Muhammad (1260–1280). The Wonders of Creation. p. 131.
  2. ^ Ettinghausen, Richard (1950). Studies in Muslim Iconography I. The Unicorn (PDF). Washington, D.C. Smithsonian. pp. 66–67. ISBN 9781258518929.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Qazwini, Zakariya Ibn Muhammad; Nathani, Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Shakir Ruzmah-i (Scribe). The Wonder's of Creation (Walter's Manuscript). Turkey.
  4. ^ Dragon Warrior 3 Monster List
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