Court-yard of Shiek Islam, Damascus--Near Which, According to the Historian Ibn Er Rabi, Job was Buried

Name:

Bain, Robert E. M.

Description:

1 photograph; b&w

Provenance:

Bertrand and Paola Lazard Holy Land Collection

Physical Description:

25.5 x 17.6 cm ( 10 x 7 in).

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

A pool of water is surrounded by vegetation. A house and a lantern are in the background.; The photograph is in a book with a typed description. The description: "(Job, i:1.)--'There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and eschewed evil.' Ibn er Rabi, as quoted by Lawrence Oliphant in his Land of Gilead, says: 'To the prophets buried in the region of Damascus belong Job, and his tomb is near Nawa in the district of Hauran.' Muhammed el Makdeshi, on page 81 of his Geography, as also quoted by Oliphant, says: 'And in Hauran and Batanæa lie the villages of Job and his home. The chief place is Nawa, rich in wheat and other cereals.' The Hauran is the store-house of Damascus. It is a highly productive and thickly populated region. The artist who took these pictures and the writer were in Damascus when the first train went out from Damascus seventy miles into the Hauran. We give as illustrating this the court-yard of Shiek Islam in Damascus."; The photograph was not catalogued by Lazard--it was catalogued at LKCAJS. "Shiek" was misspelled in the title by the author.; Condition: Good

Collection:

Lenkin Family Collection of Photography (University of Pennsylvania)