Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shakh-Zinde) i mavzolei pri nei. Mechet (khanaka) Shakh-Zinde. Piupiter s Koranom pozhertvovannym [sic] bukharskim Emirom Nasrulloi – Vintage Wall Art
![Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shakh-Zinde) i mavzolei pri nei. Mechet (khanaka) Shakh-Zinde. Piupiter s Koranom pozhertvovannym [sic] bukharskim Emirom Nasrulloi, [between 1865 and 1872] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f7/f7f68e308fa7-L.webp)
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A window into the past: Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shakh-Zinde) i mavzolei pri nei. Mechet (khanaka) Shakh-Zinde. Piupiter s Koranom pozhertvovannym [sic] bukharskim Emirom Nasrulloi, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shakh-Zinde) i mavzolei pri nei. Mechet (khanaka) Shakh-Zinde. Piupiter s Koranom pozhertvovannym [sic] bukharskim Emirom Nasrulloi
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The subject here is the Koran stand in the mosque, or khanaka, of the Shah-i-Zinda, which holds a copy of the Quran donated by the Bukharan Emir Nasrullah. The Shah-i-Zinda, or "Living King," is a hillside necropolis in Samarkand, a rising row of tiled mausoleums built around the shrine of Qusam ibn Abbas, a figure revered locally as a cousin of the Prophet Muhammad. Russian photographers documented the monuments after Russia took Samarkand in 1868, and this view was reproduced as plate 62 in the archaeological volume of the *Turkestan Album*, issued in 1871 and 1872.
| Created / published | [between 1865 and 1872] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Albumen prints 1860-1880. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' arkheologicheskaia, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, pl. 62. Title from item. |
| Subjects | Shāh-i Zindah--Uzbekistan--Samarqand--1860-1880. Koran--1860-1880. Uzbeks--Spiritual life--Uzbekistan--Samarqand--1860-1880. Koran stands--Uzbekistan--Samarqand--1860-1880. Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Uzbekistan--Samarqand--1860-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,219 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-154810 |
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