Photographer On The HajjOne of the earliest visual records of the Hajj and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The diaries of Muhammad Ali Effendi Saudi, a civil servant and accomplished photographer, offer a rare glimpse of the Hajj through Egyptian eyes at the beginning of the twentieth century when the Ottoman Empire was on the wane and the advance of the Hijaz railway threatened to upset vested interests in the old pattern of pilgrimage. Saudi twice accompanied the Amir

observed in his gardens or on country walks

As part of our collection honoring great Islamic cities

sunlit days

and data collectors

Renowned in his own time as a muhaddith and historian

which stretches from Morocco in the west to Indonesia in the east

even while enslaved

Murad shows that a compassion-based approach

allowing European traders to seize control of India if Dara Shukoh had ascended the throne

Author: Marshall Hodgson

we chose "The Enigma of Language" as a broad theme because the free and virtually limitless nature of language might be the stubborn holdout to the prevailing concept of a world without spirit

and frank account of imperialism