Covenant,2009
digital composite of drawings made and photographs taken in Sinai, Egypt

In the library of the monastery of St. Catherine’s Sinai is a copy of a document signed by the Prophet Muhammad in 628 C.E. It is a Charter of Privileges for Christians.

In 1517, the original letter was taken by the Turkish Sultan Selim I and is now in the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul, but the sultan gave the monks a copy of it and sanctioned its terms. The privileges of protection and safe-conduct for the monks have been upheld to this day.

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