Waq-Waq

thumb|right|The Queen of the island of Waqwaq, folio from Walters manuscript W.659 Al-Wakwak ( '), also spelled al-Waq Waq, Wak al-Wak or just Wak Wak''', is the name of an island, or possibly more than one island, in medieval Arabic geographical and imaginative literature.

==Identification with civilisations== thumb|Derived ultimately from a conflation of medieval Persian and Qur'anic|Qur'anic sources, including descriptions of the mythical island of Waq-waq inhabited by half-plant/half-animal creatures, this painting depicts a plant that brings forth animal life in multiple forms. Early 1600s, [[Mughal India. Cleveland Museum of Art.]]