Middle East

On the surface, nothing could seem simpler than an open courtyard.   But even the mosque’s courtyard (the Ibn Tulun Mosque’s in the two above

Mosque architecture and the most basic Islamic truths reflect each other in tremendously rich ways.   Islam has five pillars of faith, and the main one is

I recently said that a lot of things in Islamic thought have deeper meanings than what you see on the surface.   If you look

You’d think a circle is a circle.   The most basic description of a circle in Western culture is a line around a central point, which

This is a rather long article for my website, but I found Petra as magnificent as the pyramids of Giza. To appreciate it well, you