Print of steel engraving titled „Pretre a Djidda. Arabe de distinction. Bhef de Wahabites“.

Drawn by Vernier.

Engraved by Branche.

From „Arabie, par M. Noel Desvergers, vice-president de la societe de geographie, Avec une carte de L‘arabie et note sur cette carte, par M. Jomard, membre de l‘institut. Paris, Firmin didot freres, editeurs, imprimeurs de l‘institut de France, 1847.

Jeddah is a city in the Hijaz Tihamah region on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, the largest sea port on the Red Sea, and the second-largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. With a population currently at 3.4 million people, Jeddah is an important commercial hub in Saudi Arabia. Wahhabism is a religious movement or branch of Sunni Islam. It has been variously described as "ultraconservative", "austere", "fundamentalist", "puritanical" and as an Islamic "reform movement" to restore "pure monotheistic worship" by scholars and advocates, and as an "extremist pseudo-Sunni movement" by opponents.

Approx. image size 20,5 x 12,4/13,7 x 9, 2 cm.Condition: medium.

Condition: medium.