Title and date devised by Library staff., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0032-0009, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26357975, BIB-ID: 2814194

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

Thomas Lowell took this photo of Lawrence in Jerusalem, probably in 1918, when he was working as war correspondent in Palestine, during World War I. After the war, he launched the “Lawrence of Arabia” legend, using many images and films he realized when he was following T.E. Lawrence and the Ara ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sheikh Ibrahim of al-Zubayr participated in the organization of the Arab Revolt, helping Sergeant John Philby in putting together the leading tribe chiefs. In his book Heart of Arabia, Philby says that "[...] the desert alliance in this sector [i.e. Mesopotamia] was formally completed with the inclu ...

Mo'en Mosavver was one of the most significant Persian miniaturist in 17th century Safavid Iran. He was a pupil of Reza Abbasi, considered to be the last great master of the Persian miniature and leading representative of the Isfahan School, active during the reign of Shah Abbas (r. 1588–1629)., T ...

The album contains a miscellaneous group of photographs and portraits of a Turkish family in the Forties. With the advent of portable cameras, photography became accessible for middle-class amateurs and everyday life and intimacy entered the world of photography. The new media emerged as a unique to ...

A processional scene with a group of equestrian figures and courtiers on foot, musicians and trumpets wearing orange pantaloons to the rear., Title and date devised by Library staff. Mounted in a series of rectangular panels, framed and glazed., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.GM.2020.0022, 2-D Gr ...

Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate n. 57 in the Atlas accompanying the text of the Duke de Luynes, "Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte" (Exploration of the Dead Sea) published in Paris by Arthus Bertrand in 1874., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2018.0001-0025, 2-D Graphic, Item-I ...