The Mosque in Mecca, arranged around the central Ka’ba, is the holiest site in Islam. Mecca is the birthplace of the Prophet Mohammed and now accommodates as many as tens of thousands of pilgrims in a single day. Pilgrims travel there from across the world in the annual Hajj, a key point in Islamic spiritual life. The Ka’ba is a symbol of unity, a structure of the greatest geometrical simplicity containing a single door. It is, however, considered to be feminine in gender and is draped in a covering of black cloth known as Al Astar to protect its modesty. This cloth, woven with gold, is replaced every year with a special ceremony. On this one day, the Ka’ba is left exposed and unveiled. Exceptionally, the authorities of the Great Mosque in Mecca granted Adel Al Quraishi permission to photograph the Ka’ba, the epicentre of Islam, in its undraped state.<\/p>\n
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Adel Al Quraishi’s photographs of the central Ka’ba of the Great Mosque in Mecca in its annual undraped state are a remarkable documentation of the epicentre of Islam. Text in Arabic.
Vol. 1
\nThe Holy Mosque before the Third Saudi Expansion
\nThe Holy Mosque during the Third Saudi Expansion
\nThe Door
\nThe Sadana The Key
\nIbrahim’s Station
\nThe Black Stone
\nThe Yemeni Corner
\nThe Shathoran
\nHijr Ismael
\nThe Drain
\nZam Zam<\/p>\n
Vol. 2
\nPilgrims
\nAl Astar
\nThe Human Flow
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\n• Justice for Victims and Survivors
\n• Justice for Prison Leavers
\n• Financing Justice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21063,5485],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79038","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-history","6":"product_cat-photography","7":"author-by-author-adel-al-quraishi","8":"publisher-kulturalis","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n