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Name of Object:

The Holy Sanctuaries at Mecca and Medina

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Holding Museum:

Khalili Family Trust – Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage Collection

About Khalili Family Trust – Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage Collection, London

Date of Object:

18th – early 19th century

Museum Inventory Number:

MSS 1278

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Ink, gold and watercolours on paper

Dimensions:

15.2 x 10.5cm (each page)

Period / Dynasty:

Mughal

Provenance:

India

Description:

The two detached pages most probably come from a copy of al-Jazuli’s Dala’il al-khayrat (full title, Dala’il al-khayrat wa shawariq al-anwar fi dhikr al-salat ‘ala al-nabi al-mukhtar).
One of the most popular works of prayer in the Islamic world, it was composed by a native of Sus, Abu ‘Abdallah Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn Abu Bakr al-Jazuli (d. 1645). The work consists of prayers for the Prophet, together with his epithets, and a description of his tomb.
Digressing somewhat from the text, Ottoman and Indian copies of the work almost always included depictions of the Meccan sanctuary besides that in Medina. The depictions in Indian copies were often diagrammatic in nature, in contrast to the more realistic, three-dimentional representations in Ottoman copies.

How date and origin were established:

Provenance and date are based on stylistic grounds.

Selected bibliography:

“al-Djazuli”, in Bosworth, C.E., van Donzel, E.J., Pearson, H. (eds), Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 2 (C-G), Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1983: 527–8.
Porter, V., The Art of Hajj, London: British Museum, 2012: 82–3, fig.50.

Citation of this web page:

Nahla Nassar "The Holy Sanctuaries at Mecca and Medina" in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uk;Mus22;46;en

Prepared by: Nahla Nassar

MWNF Working Number: UK2 46

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