A historical photo book on late Ottoman Palestine, Abdul-Hamid’s Palestine brings together rare photographs from the private collection of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, selected and introduced by Jacob M. Landau. The book belongs to visual history, Middle East studies, and documentary reference, using archival images to present landscapes, cities, public buildings, everyday life, and human presence in Palestine during the final decades of Ottoman rule. Rather than offering a conventional narrative history, it gives readers a pictorial record shaped by imperial collecting, historical memory, and the documentary power of photography, making it especially relevant to readers interested in the history of Palestine, Ottoman-era photography, and illustrated historical sources that open a direct view onto a vanished world.
Author: Jacob M. Landau
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Publication year: 1979
Pages: 144
