Faith & Spirit
The Umayyad Mosque: An Epic of Living Memory Breathing for More Than a Thousand Years
المسجد الأموي: ملحمة الذاكرة الحيّة التي تتنفس منذ أكثر من ألف عام
In ten chapters a Damascene architect is put on trial by the Umayyad Mosque. Its courtyard, mosaics and arcades recall the caliphs who built it, Salah al-Din, the invasions of Hulagu and Tamerlane, its scholars and poets, and a worshipper who asks why it did not protect him, until the architect learns that stone does not read signatures.
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- Arabic and English
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- Faith & Spirit
