Mecca—al-Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar | Photograph of the Haram al-Sharif and Kaaba at Mecca, c. 1887

Mecca—al-Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar

Photograph of the Haram al-Sharif and Kaaba at Mecca, c. 1887

ALBUMEN PRINT (183 x 237mm.), captioned in Arabic in the negative, mounted, framed and glazed

A RARE PHOTOGRAPH BY THE FIRST ARAB PHOTOGRAPHER OF MECCA. Abd al-Ghaffar is the earliest known photographer from Mecca and the first resident to photograph the holy city. He ranks alongside Mohammed Sadiq Bey and Snouck Hurgronje, as a pioneer photographer of the holy sites of Islam in Arabia.