1889 Arafah,Mount Arafat,Mecca,Saudi Arabia,Mina,Stoning of the Devil

Die zwischen Muna und ?Arafah gelegene Pilgerstation Muzdalʼfah
Title: Die zwischen Muna und ?Arafah gelegene Pilgerstation Muzdalʼfah
Title Translation: The pilgrimage station Muzdalʼfah, situated between Mina and ?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 (Mount Arafat) east of Mecca, Saudi Arabia during the Hajj. A mosque is in the background. 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. XII 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.
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