Since photographs are the easiest and quickest way of conveying information to a wide section of the public, ISRA has arranged three mobile exhibitions. While each of the first two exhibitions contained 13 displays with commentaries in English and Arabic, the third contained 15 displays with commentaries in English only. The three exhibitions were the work of the leading photographer Jak Kilby. Kilby has spent much time in Islamicjerusalem. He has a collection of thousands of slides of Islamicjerusalem and has illustrated many exhibitions on the subject

• The first exhibition (1997), entitled “The Crown of the Holy City: Al-Aqsa Mosque in Islamicjerusalem”, sought to correct the common misconception that Al-Aqsa Mosque is the same as the Dome of the Rock. In fact, the latter is only part of Al-Aqsa Mosque, which covers an area of 144.9 dunums (1 dunum = approx. 1000 square metres).
   

• The second exhibition (1998), entitled “Islamicjerusalem: Continuation of Muslim Presence”, sought to illustrate the uninterrupted presence of Muslims in Islamicjerusalem since the first Muslim conquest of the region by the Caliph Umar Ibn al-Khattab.
   

• The third exhibition (2002), entitled “Islamicjerusalem: Lands of the Prophets”, sought to show the connections of the Prophets and their followers with Islamicjerusalem.

All the exhibitions are now on display for public viewing in the Shaikh Maktoum Exhibition Area at the Al-Maktoum Institute in Dundee.

Copies of the exhibitions are available for hire by organisations, schools or institutions.  If you are interested in hiring either of these exhibitions, please contact the Academy.