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A rare photographic record of the major sites and geographic features in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Palestine. The original photographs were taken for the most part by Moritz between 1905 and 1915, but some by Turkish friends in areas where he was prohibited from going.
The subjects consist of:
Jerusalem.
Landscape views near Jericho and in Jordan.
Deraa and other locations in Syria.
Bedouin camps in east Jordan.
Petra and the landscape nearby.
Desert views in the Hejaz.
Personnel building the Hejaz Railway between Damascus and Mecca and Medina.
One printed map of Medina, accompanying views of the town, including the Mosque of the Prophet and the progress of the Mahmal in 1914.
Views of Mecca, including the Ka'ba, and a pilgrim camp near Mount Arafat.
Street scenes in Jeddah.
Aqaba.
Desert views in Sinai, oases, wadis and Christian monastic buildings.
Moritz (1859-1939) was an Arabist and archaeologist who from 1896 to 1911 was in charge of the Khedival Library and Archive in Cairo, publishing a seminal work on Arabic paleography in 1905. He made several research trips to the Sinai and Hejaz.