“The lovely words ′human kindness′ have become so trivial […] and yet this should be the goal of our striving.”
Johann Gottfried Herder: Faith as silent spirituality
Ibn ‘Arabi and Sufism, a way of reading Islamic architecture
That origin can be represented in no other way than through geometry, which is the primordial measure by which all visible forms are composed. Abstraction is the most faithful and evocative way to imagine the divine essence that makes up the world.
Islamic carpets and fabrics in Renaissance art
We make a connection between the religious-mathematical foundation of the Islamic form and its introduction into the Renaissance artistic world at a time when it seeks to develop geometric thought based on the new humanist mentality.
Kalīla wa-Dimna: an inspiring literary-political fable
Kalīla wa-Dimna (كليلة ودمنة), a book of animal fables, has has been translated into many languages over time and has become a text that has permeated political and moral philosophies around the world.
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