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A presentation album of twenty photographs of Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock, inscribed by the Head of the Supreme Islamic Council of Jersualem Jerusalem, dated the first day of Rabi' I, 1342/11th October 1923 image 1
A presentation album of twenty photographs of Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock, inscribed by the Head of the Supreme Islamic Council of Jersualem Jerusalem, dated the first day of Rabi' I, 1342/11th October 1923 image 2
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A presentation album of twenty photographs of Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock, inscribed by the Head of the Supreme Islamic Council of Jersualem
Jerusalem, dated the first day of Rabi' I, 1342/11th October 1923

23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A presentation album of twenty photographs of Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock, inscribed by the Head of the Supreme Islamic Council of Jersualem
Jerusalem, dated the first day of Rabi' I, 1342/11th October 1923

albumen prints, laid down on card leaves, two per leaf, handwritten identifying captions in Arabic, loose flyleaf of the same paper with Arabic inscription dated of AH 1342/AD 1923, black leather covers
photographs 53 x 85 mm.; album 197 x 150 mm.

Footnotes

The inscription refers to brotherhood and respect to His Excellency al-Sayyid Karim al-Din, the deputy Chief of Police of Hyderabad of the Deccan, a member of the committee of the charitable institution of the Sanctuary in Hyderabad.

Reference is made to an 'imaret, which in the Ottoman Empire was a charitable institution, often containing a soup kitchen for the poor. This is very probably the one attached to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.

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