The mausoleum takes its name by Sitt Zumurrud Khatun, mother of the Abbassid Al-Nasir li-Din Allah . The tomb was built in 1199 and it is considered one the oldest of Baghdad., Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 152., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0052, 2-D Graphi ...
Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 153., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0053, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21953363, BIB-ID: 2346520
The photographs shows whirling dervishes dancing to the music of flute, tambourine and violin., Title author and date devised by Library of Congress., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0043, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i24447134, BIB-ID: 2537225
Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 154., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0054, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21953430, BIB-ID: 2346521
Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 155., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0055, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21953442, BIB-ID: 2346522
Portait of Abdullah bin Hussein, commander of the Arab Eastern Army. He played a key role in the guerrilla revolt, in particular because of the besiege of Taif and Medina and of the sabotage of the Hejaz Railway. He was the ruling Emir of Transjordan under the British Mandate from 1921 to 1946, when ...
Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 164., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0064, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21953739, BIB-ID: 2346539
The Shammar are a tribal confederation made up of three main branches: the Abdah, the Aslam, and the Zoba. Dhari ibn Tawala was the chief of the Aslam Shammar, a group that also nowadays counts most of his members between Arabia and Iraq. He met John Philby in November 2017, in Zubayr, where the lea ...
Portait of Faisal bin Hussein, the commander of the Arab Northern Army during the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. He spent most of the war in Hejaz and he enjoyed a particularly close relationship with T. E. Lawrence, as described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He was King of Syria from 1918-19 ...
Portait of Faisal bin Hussein, the commander of the Arab Northern Army during the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. He spent most of the war in Hejaz and he enjoyed a particularly close relationship with T. E. Lawrence, as described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He was King of Syria from 1918-19 ...
Portait of Faisal bin Hussein, the commander of the Arab Northern Army during the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. He spent most of the war in Hejaz and he enjoyed a particularly close relationship with T. E. Lawrence, as described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He was King of Syria from 1918-19 ...
Together with T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell, Sergeant John Philby was a key player in the Arab Revolt. Like Lawrence and Bell, he was first of all an Arabicist and an explorer, especially known for his accounts Heart of Arabia (1922) and The Empty Quarter (1932). In 1917 Philby arrived in al-Zubay ...
