1889 Arafah,Mecca,Saudi Arabia,Hajj,Miná,Stoning of the Devil ritual

Oestliche Seite des Berges ?Arafah
Title: Oestliche Seite des Berges ?Arafah
Title Translation: Eastern side of Mount ?Arafah
Creator(s): ?Abd al-Ghaffar, al-Sayyid, Physician of Mecca, photographer
Date Created/Published: [Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1889]
Summary: Photograph shows pilgrims with camels and livestock gathered at a rest station near ?Arafah east of Mecca, Saudi Arabia during the Hajj. Pilgrims are wearing Ihram clothing. After gathering at ?Arafah, pilgrims proceeded to Miná for the symbolic Stoning of the Devil ritual.
Notes:
Title from caption list in portfolio.
Plate no. XIV in portfolio: Bilder aus Mekka, C. Snouck Hurgronje. Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1889.
Photograph attributed to al-Sayyid ?Abd al-Ghaffar by scholar Claude Sui. (Source: 'Travel to the Holy Land and photography in the nineteenth century' by Claude Sui. Chapter in: To the Holy Lands: Pilgrimage centres from Mecca and Medina to Jerusalem. Mannheim: Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, 2008, pages 56-63)
Stamped with chop of former owner: Minami Manshu Tetsudo Kabushiki Kaisha Toa Keizai Chosakyoku zosho no in (in position of Southern Manchuria Railroad Co. East Asia Economic Research Division).
Subjects:
Muslims--Spiritual life--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--1880-1890.
Pilgrims--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--1880-1890.
Tents--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--1880-1890.
Albumen prints--1880-1890.
Chops--1880-1890.
Portfolios--1880-1890.
Bookmark /2013646231/
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