This calligraphic ferman (Royal decree) issued in Receb 1193 AH/13-08 1779 AD, by Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid Han I (21 January 1774 – 7 April 1789)...

Arabic manuscript on paper, comprising 32 folding panels, written in red and black naskh, thuluth and Kufic script, decorated in polychrome height...

two vols., 'new edition', folding plan of Mecca, 3 further tables (2 folding), offsetting, translated by George Sale, bookplate to front pastedown...

Four volumes, Ottoman Turkish text, Mir’at Mecca in volume, 1175pp., Mir’at Medina in two volumes, 1343pp., Mir’at Jazirat al-’Arab in one volume,...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 458 leaves, 13 lines to the page written in neat naskh script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and...

Arabic manuscript on paper depicting prayers in honor of the Prophet Muhammad, each folio with 10 lines, written in elegant black naskh script, wi...

Ink and opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting the prophet Muhammad praying beside the Kaaba during the conquest of Mecca and th...

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting two seated imams ‘Jilani and Chichti’ in Al-Haram Al-Nabawi in the medina, ruled in gold ...

Watercolor on stucco heightened with gold, depicting a large roundel enclosing a view of Mecca, central al-Masjid al-Haram with seven minarets, an...

An oil painting depicting Mecca. 80 by 63 cm.

BY ABDULLAH, 1295 AH/1878 AD. 56 by 49 cm.

92 by 73.5 cm

An oil painting. 92 by 75 cm.

An oil painting. 81 by 65 cm.

Painting of Mecca, signed by MEHMED ARIF53.5 by 46 cm

75 by 60 by cm. each

Signed by MEHMET FIRAKI EL EYYUBITurkey, 1328 AH/1910 AD. 80 by 56 cm.

Signed by Mehmet Firaki El Eyyubi Turkey 1326 AH/1908 AD 80 by 47 cm.

An oil painting signed by FIKRI KAPTAN Turkey 1317 AH/1899 AD. 39 by 27 cm.

Signed by A. CARNIGERO 80 by 53 cm.

An oil painting, 60 by 50 cm.

Signed by MUNIF FEHIM 73 by 53 cm.

This quadruped qibla finder board features two sundials, a compass and a circular geographical table in the folk tradition of Islamic science know...

Undated. 19th century. Diameter: 8.5 cm. This small portable qibla finder features two sundials, a compass and a circular geographical table in t...

Brass, Diameter: Approx. 24 cmThe dairat al-mu’addil (Eng. equatorial circle) is an instrument with combines a sundial with a qibla indicator. It ...

Ottoman pillar shaped dual sundial made for the Holy City of Medina and sent by the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid by a so called “Imperial Surre” or a...

The instrument is a square brass plate (8.1 by 8.1 cm.) mounted on another square larger wooden plate (8.4 by 8.4 cm). On the brass plate several...

Crystal Ball desk top clock, CIRCA 1890. Convex cut glass to the front and back each opening.Visible platform escapement movement to the back. Bra...

Two circular disks/dials (dia. Approx. 11 cm) connected by a bar and mounted on a pedestal. This 19th century Ottoman desktop perpetual calendar...

A 19th century Ottoman Universal Qibla Indicator (“K?blenüma-? Afaki”) modeled after the original invented in 1151 AH/1738 AD by the Armenian B?r?...

Constantinople, 1178 AH/1765 AD (dated above the frame) Case overall 84.8 by 40.5 cm. Qibla finder comprising a rectangular wooden panel with two...

Oil on canvas depicting holy places and Ottoman buildings.To the centre above, a floral roundel enclosing a portrait of the sultan Abdulhamid II, ...

The holy Camel when it passes along the town of Cairo in the very extraordinary annual procession preparatory to the setting forward of the great ...

Dark brown and red leather, embroidered with a Turkish inscription in silk thread. Surrah purses were used to send official donations to the Proph...

This ihram belt would have been worn by a male pilgrim on top of the lower hiram garment (czar) for carrying valuables while performing the Hajj r...

An Ottoman iron train coupling, linking two train wagons, of rectangular shape and stamped with word 'Hijaz'. CATALOGUE NOTEOn Sept. 1, 1900, on ...

A case, the frame painted in gold, decorated with a crescent moon and star in the center, opening in two parts.The inside of the cover painted wit...

The rectangular panel with 24 tiles, depicting the sites of Mecca and Medina, the location names inscribed in Naskh script in black ink, the panel...

The panel of 6 tiles, depicts the holy sanctuary of the mosque at Mecca within the compound, the Kaaba is shown in the centre among other sites s...

The lower cubic section surmounted by canopy in the form of a pyramid, one side with opening, of red and green silk profusely embroidered with sil...

A large Ottoman silk, velvet and metal thread calligraphic band from the holy Kabaa (Hizam), of rectangular form embroidered with silver metal wir...

Of rectangular form, embroidered in silver and gilt threads over a green silk ground, the surface broken into cartouches of various shapes and siz...

The lower cubic section surmounted by canopy in the form of a pyramid, of red, green and black silk profusely embroidered with silver and gilt-sil...

Of rectangular form, the red field with applied thick silver and gilt embroidery forming calligraphic cartouches surrounding an inner mihrab with ...

Four panels, each contains the basmalla, the left-half of each cartouche reflecting the right so the inscriptions read as symmetrical interlace de...

An Ottoman hanging panel of rectangular shape embellished in silver wires on a green silk with a large thuluth inscription of Quran surah Al-Tawba...

An Ottoman hanging panel of rectangular shape with two loops embellished in gilt wires on a red silk with a large roundel enclosing in thuluth scr...

An Ottoman Kaaba kiswa brocade or samadiyah, of square form placed always on the four corners of the Kaaba.Embellished in gilt wires on a black si...

A yellow silk ground woven with chevron bands of alternating widths containing light yellow inscriptions and in between 'Allah and Muhammad' woven...

A fragment of silk hanging panel of the inner kiswa, with an inscribed weave in cream color over a red silk ground. Embellished with a prominent ?...

Of rectangular form and inlaid with mother-of-pearl in low relief on a wooden panel, depicting Al-Kaaba in Al-Masjid Al-Haram with Haijr Ismail, z...

An Ottoman wooden moonflask set on both sides with a floral roundel enclosing the Kaaba in al-Masjid al-Haram and al-Masjid al-Nabawi, stylized in...

Turkish manuscript on paper, 5 lines written in black diwani script, depicting a letter sent to Sokullu Mehmed Pasha's Grandson, Esseyid Abdulkeri...

Cotton covered with text written in a variety of scripts and floral design, including thuluth and small square Kufic, in assorted colors, in numer...

Watercolor heightened with gold on wood, depicting al-Masjid al-Haram central in Mecca with another mosque in the background. Ruled by an openwork...

The egg painted with two panels decorated with gilt floral motifs enclosing two vieuws of al-Masjid al-haram in Mecca and al-Masjid al-Nabawi in ...

Images of Mecca with prayers around the Kaaba, the Mahmal with pilgrims, pilgrims' tents at Arafat, the Ak-Khayf mosque at Mina, and views of the ...

Series of historical photograph albums 8, IRCICA; Istanbul, 592 p., 37 by 46 cm., illustrations, maps, plans (Turkish, English, Arabic)Prepared by...

90 photos including images of the Mahmal with pilgrims, the arrival of the mahmal, during the Hajj travel to Mecca and Images of Mecca with pray...

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, with roundels outlined in gold containing names and titles of historical figures in red diwani lin...