A Muslim woman ruler before the 20th century. It’s amazing how much we’ve regressed.
Related Posts
Jihad or Murder?
Filali-Ansary gives you a good read. Technorati Tags: Abdou Filali-Ansary, Radicalism
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has a pretty good companion website to its exhibits, including a section on Islamic Art. Pictures alone are worth the visit. Technorati Tags: Islamic art
Mecca Development Veers to Kitsch – Critic’s Notebook – NYTimes.com
Mecca Development Veers to Kitsch – Critic’s Notebook – NYTimes.com. It is an architectural absurdity. Just south of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the Muslim world’s holiest site, a kitsch rendition of London’s Big Ben is nearing completion. Called the Royal Mecca Clock Tower, it will be one of the tallest buildings in the world, the centerpiece of a complex that is housing a gargantuan shopping mall, an 800-room hotel and a prayer hall for several thousand people. Its muscular form, an unabashed knockoff of the original, blown up to a grotesque scale, will be decorated with Arabic inscriptions and…