Islamic Funeral, Cairo, Egypt, 1906
by Getty Research Institute
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Islamic Funeral, Cairo, Egypt, 1906
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Getty Research Institute
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Photograph - Photograph
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A photochrom print of an Islamic funeral procession down a Cairo street in 1906. Funerals in Islam (called Janazah in Arabic) follow fairly specific rites, though they are subject to regional interpretation and variation in custom. In all cases, however, sharia (Islamic religious law) calls for burial of the body, preceded by a simple ritual involving bathing and shrouding the body, followed by salat (prayer). Cremation of the body is forbidden.This image was made by French industrialist Paul Fleury. Photochrom (also called the Aäc process) prints are colorized images produced from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography, a broader term that refers to color lithography in general.
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