Photographer On The Hajj classic Binding: Hardback

Binding: Hardback

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Photographer On The Hajj classic Binding: HardbackOne 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