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LL/100312
Sulayman Al-Hakim
End of XIX - beginning of XX centuries
View of the courtyard of the Grand Mosque [Saudi Arabia, Mecca]

Albumen print
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Private Collector: Ost Monika Feliksovna, Museum number: MAE I 1428-29
 
(Alan Griffiths, 22 May 2020) Although this copy of the photograph has "S. Hakim" plainly visible in the lower right it is not by him. This photograph was taken by Abd al-Ghaffar (ca 1885-1888) although it is frequently credited to Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje.
 
LL/100312


 

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