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The Rifa'i Mosque is one of the newer mosques in Islamic Cairo. Built between 1869 and 1912 in pseudo-Mameluke style for Princess Khushyar, the mother of Khedive Ismail, it is the final resting place of a number of Egypt's rulers, including Khedive Ismail, King Fuad I and King Farouk 1. Also buried there are Shaikh Ali al-Rifa'i, who gave his name to the mosque, and the last shah of Iran. This photograph shows the tomb of one of King Farouk 1.
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The Rifa'i Mosque is one of the newer mosques in Islamic Cairo. Built between 1869 and 1912 in pseudo-Mameluke style for Princess Khushyar, the mother of Khedive Ismail, it is the final resting place of a number of Egypt's rulers, including Khedive Ismail, King Fuad I and King Farouk 1. Also buried there are Shaikh Ali al-Rifa'i, who gave his name to the mosque, and the last shah of Iran. This photograph shows the tomb of Khedive Ismail.
Gallery of Islamic Art, Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
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Pilgrims stand in the hot Arabian sun all day for the ritual known as the Standing of Arafat. Muslims believe on the Day of Judgement all of humanity will stand in a plain like this, waiting to have their souls reckoned by God.
Cairo, Hamssin
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Islamic Cairo is a very old area, surrounded by walls dating from the middle-ages, and was once the cultural, religious and intellectual center of the entire Arab world. Monumental buildings, palaces, many famous mosques and madrasas (religious schools), numerous markets and the oldest university in the world (al-Azhar) still stand witness to a glorious past. But, in the twentieth century Egypt has become a poor third world country and at present Islamic Cairo has fallen into decline, it is full of ruins and has degraded into a living and working neighborhood for the very poorest. The entire neighborhood has become a big bazaar, a labyrinth of dirty, stinking and dusty streets, with thousands of old-fashioned workshops where many crafts are still practiced at a very high level. Two million people live close by in what used to be the burial ground for the very rich: the City of the Dead. Entire families have taken possession of old sepulchers. Surrounding it are schools and stores, the center of an extremely lively social life.
The lot of the inhabitants is not just poverty; religion is also very important to them, namely the Sunni Islam. Daily life is interrupted five times a day by the call from the mosques that is heard everywhere and the people go to pray to Allah. The visitor can experience: the ramadan (a period of fasting), the hadj (a pilgrimage to Mecca), and exuberant weddings and funerals one after the other. Islamic Cairo is grandeur and decline, work and poverty, religion and tradition in confrontation with the modern world, as a great stage where everything takes place in an eternal scenario.
The series of black and white panoramic photographs - made in the period 1986-2001 - has been made with support of the Foundation Found for Visual Art, Design and Architecture (Amsterdam) and Agfa Gevaert (Leverkussen). Some of the work has been on show before at the Amsterdam Center of Photography (1996), Berlage Institute (1998), SBK Gallery Amsterdam (1998) The International Institute of Social History Amsterdam (2000), the Noorderlicht NAZAR exhibitions in Leeuwarden, Prague, Stuttgart and Berlin (2004-6) and EWerk Freiburg (2006)
View of northern Iwan at Vakil mosque, situated to the west of the Vakil Bazaar, in Shiraz, Fars province of Iran.
Vakil mosque was built between 1751 and 1773, during the Zand period. Vakil means regent, which was the title used by Karim Khan, the founder of Zand Dynasty. Shiraz was the seat of Karim Khan’s government and he endowed many buildings, including this mosque.
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