Other countries - Egypt

Imagine of a Mummy Vendor;
Local people selling Mummies in the streets of Egypt in 1875.



Princely states of India - Hyderabad

His Exalted Highness Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur (Asaf Jah VII), the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad.






1911: Corination portrait of the VIIth Nizam with his courtiers including Maharaja Kishen Pershad, Sir Afsur ul Malik and Nawab Fakhr-ul-Mulk. Displayed in museum in the Chowmahalla Palace, Hyderabad.




King Saud ibn Abdul Aziz who ruled Saudi Arabia from 1953 till 1964 visited Hyderabad India in 1954 only to meet Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Osman Ali Khan to thank him for the great monetary help given by Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan for the maintenance of Harmain Sharifayn (Makkah Mukarramah and Madinah Munawarrah) from 1911 till 1954.

Nizam built more that thirty grand buildings around Masjid al-Haraam in Makkah Mukarramah and Masjid un-Nabi in Madinah Munawarrah for the pilgrims visiting these sacred places for Haj and Umrah.

Nizam of Hyderabad was the largest donor for the maintenance of Harmain Sharifayn till 1954 until the Saudis got the Petro-dollars.