Jews (wearing their traditional coloured costumes) consult a 120-year-old elder in Damascus, who tells them that Mohammed was a Messiah and the last prophet to come into the world - a 16th century Turkish miniature based on an original 10th-century Arab text, Siyer-i Nebi ("The life of the prophet"). In this period there was constant theological discussion about the respective roles of the three great monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism. 固opFoto