Photographs showing a richly ornamented interior scene in the bridal chamber and a bridegroom sitting on the throne. The photographs were taken by the Meccan doctor and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s) between 1886 and 1889., Title from caption list in portfolio. Date from i ...

Photograph showing pilgrims with tents, camels, and livestock gathered at the rest station of Arafat during the Hajj. The photograph was taken the Meccan doctor and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s) between 1886 and 1889., Title from caption list in portfolio. Date from item. ...

Photograph showing pilgrims with tents, camels, and livestock gathered at the rest station of Arafat during the Hajj. The photograph was taken the Meccan doctor and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s) between 1886 and 1889., Title from caption list in portfolio. Date from item. ...

Photograph showing pilgrims with tents, camels, and livestock gathered at the rest station of Arafat during the Hajj. The photograph was taken the Meccan doctor and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s) between 1886 and 1889., Title from caption list in portfolio. Date from item. ...

Photograph showing pilgrims with tents, camels, and livestock gathered at the rest station of Arafat during the Hajj. The photograph was taken the Meccan doctor and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s) between 1886 and 1889., Title from caption list in portfolio. Date from item. ...

The "Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka" (Pictorial Atlas of Mecca) is the photographic portfolio published to accompany the 2-volume work “Mecca” by the Dutch orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje. In these texts, he reconstructs the history of the Holy City and on the origins of Islam, early traditions a ...

Collection of four portraits of children in ceremonial robes. The first one is described as Muhammad 'Abd al-'Aziz, son of Amir Awn al Rafiq - Grand Sharif of Mecca between 1882 and 1905 - and three of his nephews. The photographs were probably taken in Mecca in 1885. The child in the bottom-left pi ...

Collection of four full-length seated portraits of sayyids and other distinguished people in Mecca, such as the muezzin and the scribe of the Grand Sharif of Mecca. Both the sayyids hold the hilt of a sheathed scimitar in their left hand, while the muezzin has an umbrella; the scribe is posing with ...

Collection of four portrait of distinguished people in Mecca. The doctor - who is likely to be the Meccan physician and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s) - and his son hold an umbrella and sit on a wooden chair, while the sayyid - identified as Abd al-Qadir al-Shaybi - holds ...

Collection of four full-length seated portrait of distinguished people, such as a man from Mecca - identified as Daud ibn Sulaiman Abu al-Faraj -, muezzins - one of them described as a senior muezzin member of the dynasty descendant of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, the first Muslim born at Medina after t ...

Collection of four full-length standing and seated portraits of members of families of sharifs in Mecca, namely Sharif Mohammed Shahin, 'Abdallah, son of Sharif Yahya al-'Umari and Sharif Ahmad, son of Sharif Hashim – both aged 20. The photographs were probably taken in Mecca between 1885 and 1887 ...