User talk:Moshe Katslav

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Moshe Katslav, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Muhammad picture

Are you willing to vouch for the reality of [this picture]? At present, a couple of contributors are removing it, on the pretext that there is no way to prove that the picture is actually from where you say it is. I think it might help if you cleaned up the image description page a bit - your image summary seems to have gotten cut off midway. Captainktainer * Talk 04:07, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

  • I do vouch for the fact that I obtained the illustration from the website mentioned in the picture page, and, according to that website, it is a fifteenth century illustration of Mohammed preaching to his earliest followers. Also according to the said source ulr, the ilustration is recorded in the Manuscripts Arabe, in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. The source ulr seems reliable, and it categorizes several Mohammed pictures in different groups, e.g. contemporary cartoons, Middle Ages illustrations by Muslims (it seems that there was a Persian group that allowed depicting the Prophet), Middle Ages illustrations by non-Muslims (e.g. Dante´s Inferno), etc. The illustration in question is from the group of pictures of Arab origin. Someone else has made minor corrections to the image description, but I vouch for the description online at this moment. It is my view that there is no reason to doubt the reliability of the source. --Moshe Katslav 14:52, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I have some questions about the picture that I hope you can answer.
  • Is the picture Persian or Arab? You state that the picture is from a group of pictures of Arab orgin in your comment above. Yet the caption describes it as Persian?.
  • Is the picture of Muahmmad's earliest followers? That is what you state in your comment above. Yet the caption states that Muhammad is speaking against intercalation. My understanding is that the words against intercalation were spoken at a later date.
  • You state in your comment above that you vouch for the fact that you obtained the picture froma website. However, the link to the website that is supplied on the page does not provide any text to support your claims about what the image depicts, either the claims in the caption or the claims you made above. Could you provide a link to the source of your information?
Thank-you. Sincerely, --BostonMA talk 21:25, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I guess I have another question for you. I would guess by your edit history that you have some history with Wikipedia prior to creating your account. Were you aware that there was controversy regarding this image prior to making your most recent edits at Muhammad? --BostonMA talk 21:33, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
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