Rukūʿ, Arabic ركوع, bowing with the upper body’, is a posture prescribed by ritual law during prayer in Islam. A bow is called: rakʿa(do)
Category: Arabia
The Almeh. Painted by Charles Bargue (1825-1883).
French Almée synonymous with belly dancer.
Costume Arabian Noble man in 1843.
Costume Arabian Noble man in 1843. Gallery: Asian costumes by Auguste Wahlen. Manners, customs and costumes of all peoples of the world.
Arab plucking a thorn from his foot.
Arab plucking a thorn from his foot. Painted by Leon Bonnat. Bedouin in traditional burnous.
Berber woman from Algeria, c. 1900.
Algeria. Berber woman. Photo: Jean Geiser 1902. Berbers are mainly found in present-day Morocco and Algeria
A Bedouin sheikh wearing burnoose.
A Bedouin sheikh wearing burnoose.
The Camel and the Arab
The Camel and the Arab. Arabian Camel Driver. From The Archive of the Old Print Man. The Art Journal, 1857.
The Syren, after Charles Louis Muller 1878.
The Syren. The painter evidently selected a Spanish, or probably a Hebrew model.
Clothing of the early Christians and Arabians of the Middle east.
Clothing of the early Christians and Arabs in the Middle East from the 4th to the 6th century.
A Mohammedan. Indian Characters.
Mohammedan dressed In the full costume worn by Muslims from the North-West Provinces.