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Lot Essay
The holy places illustrated in this manuscript include the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus (with the Shrine of John the Baptist), the minbars of various prophets (Musa, Yusuf, Ya'qub, Ishaq, etc), the Sinaniya and Süleymaniye Mosques, the tomb of Ibn al-'Arabi and the tomb of Ibrahim (in Hebron). The following pages have depictions of various tombs which do not appear to be organized geographically. These include those of 'Isa (Jesus, in Jerusalem) and the Imams of the Sunni madhhabs (Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Abu Hanifa in Baghdad, Malik in Mecca, al-Shafi'i in Cairo), Khalid ibn Walid (in Homs), Aisha and Abu Hurayra (in Medina), Zaynab (in Damascus), and the tombs of the various Shi'a imams. Following this there is a page with the mosques of the Rightly Guided Caliphs and various Companions of the Prophet as well as those of Hassan and Husayn; another page has the shrines of the Turban of the Prophet, the cave of Sulayman and the Footprint of the Prophet as well as the mihrab of Da'ud, the tomb of Zakariya, the gate of the Masjid al-Aqsa and the tomb of Mu'awiya; a further page has sites that would also appear to be in Jerusalem, such as the Gate of the Mi'raj, the tomb of Sulayman, the place where Buraq was tied up and the tomb of Da'ud; the following page has depictions of the birthplaces of Muhammad, the Rashidun and Fatima; followed by a page with the tombs of Khadija and various Shaykhs and Holy Men in Mecca. The final page of diagrams includes places in Mecca such as the sites of the bathing places (maqam-i istihmam) of various figures such as Habibullah and the People of the Ka'ba as well as further tombs of various notables and Holy Men.