Snouck Hurgronje, C. (Christiaan) 1857-1936 photographer. ʻAbd al-Ghaffār, al-Sayyid Physician of Mecca photographer still image picture still image Collotypes. Portrait photographs. ne 1888 monographic 1888. ger 4 photographs : collotype prints on mount ; images 13 x 9.3 cm, sheet 36.5 x 27 cm

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Group. 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 the hijra - and traders from Mecca and Jeddah. Photographs were probably taken in Mecca between 1884 and 1887 by Snouck Hurgronje and by the Meccan doctor and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s). The negatives had handwork applied: the original backgrounds have been substituted completely except for the carpets. No Known Copyright Title and date from item. Plate no. 15 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889).The plate is numbered (XV) and each collotype is titled in German under the image. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.02074-0015 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26506841 BIB-ID: 2831365 People Mecca (Saudi Arabia) Portraits Merchants Mecca (Saudi Arabia) Portraits Muezzins Mecca (Saudi Arabia) Portraits aacr rda QAFCL 131215 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.5 using MARC21slim2MODS3-5.xsl (Revision 1.111 2016/3/24) eng