the courtyard of the kaaba almost completely empty is definitely one of the most striking images i've seen come out of recent events

re: lb: I wonder how this opportunity to photograph the kaaba is going to affect imagery of it. I can see world religion textbooks, encyclopedias, museums, etc preferring an image with an unobstructed view

presenting the *thing* of the kaaba rather than the… process? event? human-numinous-interaction? of kaaba

potentially shifting / creating a new public image of it (among non-muslims)

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@Lioness I hope not--the kaaba with all the people around it seems like the real essence of the thing, not the kaaba itself. we're not muslim though so i kinda wonder what actual muslims think of that idea

@Felthry avoiding the objectification of god is a pretty big deal in islam (broadly), so I can't imagine them being happy with anything that tends toward treating it as merely a monument or bit of architecture

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