The Oriental Album. A Berber Playing the Kissar to Women of the Same Tribe.
A Berber Playing the Kissar to Women of the Same Tribe.
Category: Middle East
Greek woman with child from Bethlehem, 19th century.
Greek woman with child from Bethlehem, 19th century. Historical and folk costumes by Franz Lipperheide.
Arab man with shell hat. José Tapiro y Baro.
“Arab man with shell hat”. Painting by the Spanish painter José Tapiro y Baro (1830-1913).
Traditional Jewish women dress.
Jewish girl from Morocco in 1869. Original by Émile Vernet-Lecomte (1821–1900) Titel: “Beauté orientale”.
The First Crusade. Knights Hospitaller of the Order of Saint John.
The First Crusade was a Christian war campaign to conquer Palestine called by Pope Urban II in 1095.
The Knights Templar. The Second Crusade in the Middle Ages.
Foundation of the Order of the Temple — St. Bernard aids the Order—Constitution of the Order — St. Bernard’s account of the Templars — The Christian power in the East weakened — The Second Crusade — The siege of Damascus — Letter of a Knight Templar — Exploits of the Templars in Palestine
Egypt. A Girl performing on the Tarabuka.
Goblet drums (also tarabuka) are single-sheet drums widely used in Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.
Sais (A Groom of Stable) in 1850. Egyptian costume.
Sais (Palefrenier, A Groom of Stable) from Egypt.
Residents of Port Said with Water Seller. Traditional Egypt clothing.
A woman with a veil and headscarf wearing a precious cloth cord embroidery on the arm, to a light tunic abaya.
Traditional Egypt costumes. Bedouin girl, Fruit Vendor, Runner.
A Bedouin girl in a shirt-like garment, called “mig wal”. Next to her is an Egyptian Fruit Vendor. She wears a cape or cloak, jilbab, Jilaabah called. Her head is covered by a veil, the niqab.