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Portrait of Dhari ibn Tawala of the Aslam Shammar
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 ...
Portrait of Faisal bin Hussein
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, as described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He was King of Syria from 1918-19 ...
Portrait of Faisal bin Hussein
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, as described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He was King of Syria from 1918-19 ...
Portrait of Faisal bin Hussein
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, as described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He was King of Syria from 1918-19 ...
Portrait of Farrokh Khan
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 ...
Portrait of Harry St. John Philby
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 ...
Portrait of Mulla Abboud al-Karkhi
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 ...
Portrait of Sheikh Ibrahim of al-Zubayr
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 ...
Posthumous portrait of the Persian miniaturist Reza Abbasi after a painting by painted by Muʻīn Muṣavvir
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 ...
Private album of a Turkish family in the Forties
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
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 ...
Public baths and southern view of the archaeological site of Jerash
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 ...