Master of Science in Islamic Art, Architecture and Urbanism
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The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge and Power
The Place of the Mosque highlights the redemptive longing to build a mosque where the formation of aesthetics is conveyed, and where religious identity and spatial arrangements are represented, as a critical project for the
The souk and society in Qatar cohabitating heritage
| His highness the Aga Khan boldly emphasized in a speech published in 1978 the accelerating loss of our cultural identity while acknowledging the valuable lessons extracted from the past. The speech reinforces the important role of cherishing the past accomplishments, pride, values, ethics and unity. These were the classification of previous generation. |
New Discoveries in the Lost City of al-Qata’i’
The city of al-Qata’i’ was founded by Ahmad Ibn Tulun in 870 A.D., being the third capital of Islamic Egypt, after those of al-Fustat and al-Askar. Historical sources tell us that it had splendid buildings never seen before in Egypt, since the time of the Ptolemies.