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Zillij: The Art of Moroccan Ceramics represents an outstanding photographic record of Moroccan ceramics and cut tiles, with written contributions from leading art historians and architects specialising in these fields. Photographer John Hedgecoe and…

One of the most influential thinkers of the Middle Ages was the Muslim philosopher and jurist Ibn Rushd (1126-1198), known in the West as Averroes. Averroes's emphasis on critical reasoning as a tool for discovering the truth and his attempt to…

Collection of lyrics full of moral reflections, containing sections on kings, dervishes, contentment, love, and social duties.

Is the Gulistan the most influential book in the Iranian world? In terms of prose, it is the model, which all writers of…

v. 3: Interest in Sufism in the West has increased through the magic of the poetry of Rumi and other Persian mystics. This text studies and celebrates the culture and intellectual life of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Iran and India, concentrating…