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Description
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Panoramic view over Mecca showing most of the Masjid al-Haram and the northwest portion of the city. The print is likely to have been drawn after a photograph - or a series of photographs - of the same view taken by the Meccan doctor and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s) between 1886 and 1887. Mentioned in the image are the office of the Qadi, the fortress on Jabal Hindi (or Quaiqian Mountain), the building housing the Zamzam well, the Minbar, the Maqam Hanafi, the Maqam Malik and Maqam Hanbali. An additional note states that the steps to the Kaaba and the Maqam Ibrahim, which is also the Maqam Shaf'i, are obscured from view by the Zamzam building., Title and date from item. Plate no. 1 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889). The image is printed onto 2 pages. The plate is numbered (I) and has printed annotations in German beneath the image (Die Moschee und der nordwestliche Theil der Stadt.’ ‘1. Amt des Qādhī’s. 2. Festung auf dem Djèbèl Hindī. 3. Gebäude des Zemzembrunnens. 7. Mimbar (Kanzel). 8. Maqām èl-H̱anafī. 9. Maqām èl-Mālikī. 10. Maqām èl-H̱ambalī. Die Treppen zur Ka’bah und der Maqām Ibrāhīm (zugleich Maqām ès-Schāfi’ī) sind hier durch das Zemzemgebäude dem Auge entzogen.’). Numbers printed within the image refer to locations indicated in a key (in German) below the image., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.02074-0001, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26500899, BIB-ID: 2831138 |
