The Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage is a private collection of around 5,000 items relating to the Hajj, the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca which is a religious duty in Isla
A Complete Cover for a Damascus Mahmal, Istanbul, 17th century
Panoramic view of Mecca by Muhammad Abdallah, 1845
Curtain for door of the Kaaba, Cairo, Egypt, 1015 AH (1606 AD)
Mahmal cover and banners in red silk. Cairo, 1867–76
Anis Al-Hujjaj
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The Anis Al-Hujjaj is a seventeenth-century literary work by Safi ibn Vali, an official of the Mughal court in what is now India. Written in Persian, it describes the Hajj undertaken by him in 1677 AD
Illustration from the Anis Al-Hujjaj showing the port of Surat, Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage
Pilgrims travelling in a ship across the Sea of Oman
Pilgrims in Mina, being shaved, making sacrifices and stoning the Devil
The birthplaces of the Prophet Muhammad; of Fatimah; of Abu Bak al-Siddiq; as well as the Madrasah of Suleiman the Magnificent, and a Bektashi lodge