The "Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka" (Pictorial Atlas of Mecca) is the photographic portfolio published to accompany the 2-volume work “Mecca” by the Dutch orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje. In these texts, he reconstructs the history of the Holy City and on the origins of Islam, early traditions a ...

Vintage poster depictiging the Kaaba in Mecca and pilgrims performing the Tawaf (circumambulating). In the foreground a group of men, one of which is looking into the viewer. The original painting is likely to be the work of the German painter Rudolf Hellgrewe (1860 – 1935). The illustration and ...

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 t ...

Collection of four full-length portraits of women from Mecca and Jeddah. On of the portraits is attributed to the Austrian Orientalist explorer Siegfried Langer, who did extensive research in the Arabian Peninsula and Yemen and whose travel reports made valuable contributions to the study of inscrip ...

Collection of four portrait of distinguished people in Mecca. The doctor - who is likely to be the Meccan physician and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s) - and his son hold an umbrella and sit on a wooden chair, while the sayyid - identified as Abd al-Qadir al-Shaybi - holds ...

Title from item, date devised by Library staff. On the verso: "Editions "La Cigogne" - Exclusivité HACHETTE.Sochepress, CASABLANCA"., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0089-0030, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26819831, BIB-ID: 2854273

Title and date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned and signed in the negative but it is not legible. On the verso of the mount is pasted a second albumen print by Hippolyte Arnoux ttitled "Soldats soudaniens" (Sudanese soldiers) numbered 1281 and signed "Arnoux"., Main Heritage Com ...

Main Heritage Compact General, MC.S.0046, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26205269, BIB-ID: 2799609

Travel poster issued by the national flag-carrier airline of Lebanon Middle East Airlines, advertising Baghdad as a tourist destination. The poster is a colorful depition of an airplane flying over domes and minarets. Middle East Airlines has been associated with the British Overseas Airways Corpora ...

Sketchbook mainly depicting Egypt, showing fortifications and mosques (including Bulaq), the harbour of Alexandria, an antique funerary oil lamp, local flora such as palm trees. Also, three loosely inserted watercolours show bedouins in the desert, one on camelback. The rest include French rural sc ...

Title from item, date devised from Library staff. The photograph has manuscript annotations on the verso of print., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0006-0004, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26821928, BIB-ID: 2854425