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Pictures of early Islamic pilgrimage centres on display
Shaikh Majid Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (DCAA), on Monday inaugurated a photographic exhibition on the earliest Islamic pilgrimage centres, "To The Holy Lands," at the Dubai International Financial Centre.
- By Syed Bilal Shafi, Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:52 September 16, 2008
- Image Credit: Prasad Nair/Gulf News
- Shaikh Majid takes a look at the exhibits after inaugurating a photographic exhibition on Islamic pilgrimage centres at the Dubai International Financial Centre.
Dubai: Shaikh Majid Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (DCAA), on Monday inaugurated a photographic exhibition on the earliest Islamic pilgrimage centres, "To The Holy Lands," at the Dubai International Financial Centre.
Organised by the DCCA in cooperation with the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums of Mannheim, Germany, the exhibition features 156 rare photographs.
One of the highlights of the exhibition are Mohammad Sadiq Bey's photographs of the pilgrimage centres of Makkah and Madinah. There are only two other collections of Bey's photographs in the world - one with the royal family of Saudi Arabia and the other in France.
Dr Omar Bin Sulaiman, managing director of the DCCA said: "The exhibition takes us back to the encounter during the 19th century between the newly-discovered medium of photography and the Arab-Muslim world, which gave rise to some extraordinary works of art."
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