Gazing at Mecca and Medina

Premodern Representations of the Ḥaramayn

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Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya
This volume presents a comprehensive collection of studies centered on the depictions of Mecca and Medina across diverse media, historical periods, and geographical contexts. By covering such an extensive temporal and spatial range, it provides readers with fresh and engaging interpretations and brings forward of overlooked and understudied materials, such as Acehnese manuscripts or Bosnian wall paintings.

Contributors: Deniz Beyazit; Guy Burak; Sergio Carro Martín; Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya; Haris Dervišević; Nicoletta Fazio; Barry Flood; Sabiha Göloğlu; Nurul Iman Rusli; Marika Sardar; Avinoam Shalem.
Copyright Year:
2025
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Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya is Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar. She completed her Ph.D. in Islamic Art History and Archaeology at the Pantheon Sorbonne University in Paris and is specialized in the Western Mediterranean, manuscripts and pilgrimage-related devotional materials in the Islamic world.
Contents
Foreword
 Finbarr Barry Flood

Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
 Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya

1 “The Neighbours of [God’s] Messenger Deserve to Be Honoured and Endorsed”
 A Letter Roll from the Medinan Notables to Sultan Süleymān (TSMA E. 7750)
 Sabiha Göloğlu and Guy Burak

2 Ziyāra to Medina: Study of a Certificate Depicting the Prophet’s Mosque
 Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya and Sergio Carro Martín

3 Representations of Pilgrims at the Holy Sites of Mecca and Medina in Futūḥ al-Ḥaramayn Manuscripts
 Marika Sardar

4 Mecca in Acehnese Poetry and Drawing
 Nurul Iman Rusli

5 Sarajevo Paintings of Mecca and Medina
 Haris Dervišević

6 Shiʿi and Sufi Paths of Pilgrimage and Salvation
 Study of a Scroll in the Aga Khan Museum
 Deniz Beyazıt

7 Laylī and the Kaʿba, or Finding Love at the Heart of Islam
 Representing al-Bayt in Persian Painting
 Nicoletta Fazio

8 Ut ekphrasis pictura: When Words Take Shape in Sir John Chardin’s Drawings of Muhammad’s Tomb in Mecca
 Avinoam Shalem

Bibliography
Index
Islamic art historians.
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
xx, 265 pp., incl. 97 fc illus.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004731950

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