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Supplicating Pilgrim at Masjid Al Haram. Mecca, Saudi Arabia
This photo shows pilgrims at the endpoint of the annual journey to Mecca (a pilgrimage that must be made by all able Muslims at least once during their lifetime) on Feburary 13, 2003: the 11th day of Dhu al-Hijjah, 1423 AH in the Islamic calendar. This picture demonstrates that even Mecca, the holiest place in all of Islam, is a mixture of the ancient and the modern. The juxtaposition of this ancient Muslim place of worship with high-rise buildings captures the mixture of old and new that exists throughout the Middle East in the age of globalization, just as it does elsewhere throughout the world.
Name: Supplicating Pilgrim at Masjid Al Haram. Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Material: Photograph
Size: 1,600 x 1,200 pixels (258 KB)
Date: Feburary 13, 2003
Place of Origin: Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Location: Wikimedia Commons
Source and Registration#: Link to resource
(accessed April 30, 2010).
Attribution: Work of Ali Mansuri.
Official License: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5
A. Holly Shissler
Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History, University of Chicago
Erin L. Glade
Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago
