1889 Sittana Mèymunah pilgrims,Mecca,Mekka,

Dritte Anischt desselben ; im Hintergrund windet sich der Weg nach Mekka Das Grab der Mèjmunah und die nächste Umgebung.
Title: Dritte Anischt desselben ; im Hintergrund windet sich der Weg nach Mekka Das Grab der Mèjmunah und die nächste Umgebung.
Title Translation: Third view of the same [camps of the Mèymunah pilgrims]; in the background the road winds toward Mecca The grave of Sittana Mèymunah and nearby area.
Creator(s): ?Abd al-Ghaffar, al-Sayyid, Physician of Mecca, photographer
Date Created/Published: [Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1889]
Summary: Photograph IXa depicts the tents of pilgrims during the Hajj near the tomb of Sittana Mèymunah, one of the wives of the Prophet Mu?ammad on the outskirts of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Photograph IXb shows the tomb of Sittana Mèymunah.
Notes:
Title from caption list in portfolio.
Plate no. IXa and IXb 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:
Mu?ammad,--Prophet,--d. 632--Family.
Muslims--Spiritual life--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--1880-1890.
Pilgrims--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--1880-1890.
Tents--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--1880-1890.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--1880-1890.
Albumen prints--1880-1890.
Chops--1880-1890.
Portfolios--1880-1890.
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