Salah al-fajr ([الفجر صالة([,) Arabic for “dawn prayer”), the earliest of Islam’s five daily prayers, is recited at the first light of dawn while facing towards the holy city of Mecca. The men in the foreground of this print demonstrate the positions one assumes over the course of this prayer: standing, kneeling, and bowing down. By locating this group outside rather than inside a mosque or home, the print connects the physical aspects of this practice—facing Mecca, moving through the positions—to the natural world. Printmaker Paul Edme Le Rat based this print on a painting by Eugène Fromentin. The painter traveled to Algeria several times, sometimes staying for years sketching nomadic life before returning to France to paint. A version of this print was published in Fromentin’s travel memoir, Sahara et Sahel (Sahara and Sahel).