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. He was King of Syria from 1918-1920 and later King of Iraq from 1921 to 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. He was King of Syria from 1918-1920 and later King of Iraq from 1921 to 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. He was King of Syria from 1918-1920 and later King of Iraq from 1921 to 19 ...

Farrokh Khan, also known by his title of Amīn al-Dawlah, was a high-ranking Persian official, and vice premier to the court of shah Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (r. 1797 -1834). He was also the Persian ambassador to the emperor of France, Napoleon III (r. 1852-1870), and the queen of Great Britain, Queen Vi ...

Together with T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell, Sergeant John Philby was a key figure in the Arab Revolt. Like Lawrence and Bell, he was, first and foremost, an Arabicist and an explorer, best known for his works Heart of Arabia (1922) and The Empty Quarter (1932). In 1917, Philby arrived in al-Zuba ...

The photograph is a studio portrait of Mulla Abboud al-Karkhi, a popular Iraqi poet. His satirical verses, composed in the colloquial Iraqi dialect, complaint about the bitterness of the reality, of the alternations of politics, of the iniquities from which the Iraqi society and women in particular ...

Sheikh Ibrahim of al-Zubayr participated in organizing the Arab Revolt, assisting Sergeant John Philby in bringing together the leading tribal chiefs. In Heart of Arabia, Philby states that '[...] the desert alliance in this sector [i.e., Mesopotamia] was formally completed with the inclusion of Ibr ...

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 ...