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'Die Moschee'. [‎4r] (1/1)

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The record is made up of 1 print (possibly lithographic A lithograph is an image reproduced from a printing plate whose image areas attract ink and non-image areas repel it. ) of a drawing after a photograph. It was created in 1888. It was written in German. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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This south-southwest view inside the Masjid al-Haram of the Caaba and surrounding structures is a print of a drawing after a photograph of the same view by the Meccan photographer, and doctor, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār. This photograph, in the collection of the Universiteit Leiden's Oriental Institute, is reproduced as Fig. 14 in F. E. Peters, The Hajj: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places , Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

In the left background, a fortified structure can be seen. This is identified as ‘Jiyad Castle’. Some Ottoman-era buildings can be seen in the nearer background, immediately outside of the mosque, including a large pale-coloured building almost immediately below the castle. This is referred to as the Hamidiyah and is likely a building constructed during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II.

Numbers printed within the image refer to locations indicated in a key (in German) below the image. These are as follows: Gate of the Banī Shaybah; The Hijr [Ismail]; Building housing the Zamzam well; Stairs to the Caaba; Maqām Ibrahīm, which is also the Maqām el-Schāfi’ī’; Minbar; Maqām al-H̱anafī; Maqām al-Mālikī; Maqām al-H̱anbalī; front-side of the Hamidiyah.

Inscriptions:

Printed above image, in ink:

II

Printed beneath image, in ink:

‘Die Moschee.’

‘1. Das Thor der Benī Schēbah. 2. Das H̱idjr. 3. Gebäudes Zemzembrunnens. 4 und 5. Treppen zur Ka’bah. 6. Maqām Ibrāhīm (zugleich Maqām ès-Schāfi’ī). 7. Mimbar (Kanzel) 8. Maqām èl-H̱anafī. 9. Maqām èl-Mālikī. 10. Maqām èl-H̱ambalī. 11. Vorderseite der H̱amīdijjah. 12. Die Festung des Djijād.’

Scattered throughout image: numbers 1–12

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1 print (possibly lithographic A lithograph is an image reproduced from a printing plate whose image areas attract ink and non-image areas repel it. ) of a drawing after a photograph
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Dimensions:

199 x 260 mm

Format:

1 print of a drawing after a photograph, bound into volume

Condition:

The print is in good condition with only minor surface dirt throughout.

Foliation:

‘II’

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German in Latin script
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'Die Moschee'. [‎4r] (1/1), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, 1781.b.6/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023627936.0x000016> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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