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Reference 1781.b.6
Title ‘Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka’, by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
Date(s) 1888 (CE, Gregorian)
Written in German in Latin
Extent and Format 1 three-quarter leather, published volume (c. 82 pages), illustrated with 65
collotype prints, 5 photolithographs, 4 lithographs and 1 other image
Holding Institution British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers
Copyright for document Public Domain
Imprint
Genre/Subject Matter:
The volume contains 65 collotype prints (pasted on paper), 5 photolithographs, 4 lithographs and 1 other
image. The majority of these – particularly the latter half of the volume – are group portraits of pilgrims en
route to Mecca.
These photographs were taken evidently in the same courtyard-like space, either at Jeddah or Mecca, where
Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje was based from 1884. Although not clearly anthropometric, some of these images can
be classified as ethnographic portraits.
Other scenes are taken at Mecca and include some photolithographic reproductions of photographs that may have
been taken by Muḥammad Ṣādiq Bey (1822 or 1823–1902 or 1903), an Egyptian army engineer who took the first
photographs of Medina in 1861 and Mecca in 1880-81, whose photographic prints Hurgronje was aware of and may
indeed have collected.
Still more photographs may have been taken by al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār, Hurgronje’s working partner during
his time in Mecca, and possibly sent to Hurgronje after his departure from the Arabian Peninsula in 1885.
Finally, the print attributed to Siegfried Langer (1781.b.6/60) is not likely to have been taken by Langer,
rather, according to Durkje van Der Wal in his publication Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje: The First Western
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Photographer in Mecca, 1884-1885 (Amsterdam : Manfred & Hanna Heiting Fund, Rijksmuseum, 2011, p. 40), the
studio portrait was purchased and presented to Snouck Hurgronje.
Elements
2 Die Moschee
3 Die Ka’bah
20 Mekkanischer Arzt.
22 Kinder aus der Familie der Benī Schēbah (Thorhüter der Ka’bah).
23 Sèjjid in Mekka.
24 Mekkaner.
26 Ali Rèjjis (aus einem Geschlechte von Obersten der Mu’èddin, welches von Abdallah ibn Zubair herstammen
soll).
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29 Mitglieder verschiedener Scherifenfamilien in Mekka.
32 Ein Stück der Kiswah (der brokanten Bekleidung der Ka’bah). ¼ der Originalgrösse.
48 Indischer Pilger.
55 Süssigkeitskrämer (Djiddah).
57 Mekkanerinn.
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59 Mekkanerinn im Brautanzug.
62 Pilger aus Pontianak (West-Borneo); links ein dort ansässiger Araber aus H̱adhramaut.
63 Pilger aus Sambas (Borneo); hinter den Pilgern steht der Wakīl (Bevollmächtigte) des Schēchs.
65 Pilger aus Ambon, Kei und Banda; links der Sohn eines Ambonesen mit einer Mekkanerinn.
66 Pilger aus Batjan (Molukken); Sohn des Sultans, Oheim des Prinzen und ein Priester.
69 Pilger aus Korintji (Sumátra); der hinter ihnen sitzende Schēch stammt auch aus Korintji.
Inscriptions
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‘Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka’, by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje [front] (1/138)