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Description
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Southwest view inside the Masjid al-Haram of the Kaaba and surrounding structures. The print is likely to have been drawn after a photograph of the same view by the Meccan doctor and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s) between 1886 and 1887. Mentioned in the image are the Bani Shaybah Gate, the Hijr-Ismail, the building housing the Zamzam well, the stairs of the Kaaba, the Maqam Ibrahim (which is also called the Maqam Shaf'i), the Minbar, the Maqam Hanafi, the Maqam Malik and Maqam Hanbali. Outside the Masjid al-Haram, the front-side of the Hamidiya Palace and the Ajyad Fortress are indicated., Title and date from item. Plate no. 2 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889). The plate is numbered (II) and has printed annotations in German beneath the image (1. Das Thor der Benī Schēbah. 2. Das H̱idjr. 3. Gebäudes Zemzembrunnens. 4 und 5. Treppen zur Ka’bah. 6. Maqām Ibrāhīm (zugleich Maqām ès-Schāfi’ī). 7. Mimbar (Kanzel) 8. Maqām èl-H̱anafī. 9. Maqām èl-Mālikī. 10. Maqām èl-H̱ambalī. 11. Vorderseite der H̱amīdijjah. 12. Die Festung des Djijād.’). Numbers printed within the image refer to locations indicated in a key (in German) below the image., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.02074-0002, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26503128, BIB-ID: 2831240 |
