Word: minarets
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...most subtly resonant of the rugs are those in which a rocket launcher replaces a traditional filigree theme, a tank substitutes for an octagon, or a minaret is swapped for a gun barrel?those where the war has just begun to impose itself on an otherwise eternal field. The changed landscape of these carpets echoes the changed landscape of the weavers' own countryside: a sky that had seen so few commercial jetliners becomes filled with bombers and missiles. In some of the later rugs, war machinery overwhelms the entire weave. All the traditional imagery has been obliterated, leaving two giant...
...Rumi speaks of in his poems?or at least in Barks' translations of them?is one who seemingly has little interest in the intricacies of orthodoxy and doctrine. "Rumi keeps breaking the mosque and the minaret and the school," Barks told National Public Radio last year. "He says when those are torn down, then dervishes can begin their community. So he wants us all to break out of our conditioning, be it national or be it religious or be it gender based...
...world's most expensive scents. Created by Frenchman Guy Robert, who has fashioned perfumes for Chanel and Dior, Amouage combines more than a hundred natural oils?including silver frankincense from the Dhofar region of Oman, and rock rose, which grows on barely accessible Omani hillsides. Amouage comes in clever minaret-shaped bottles decorated with traditional Omani designs. One of these gold and leaded crystal bottles will set you back about $3,000 in Paris or London, so you might want to opt instead for a $5 bottle of scented oil from the souk. That's more than enough to conjure...
There is no dome, no minaret, nothing but a small sign to indicate that this rundown Victorian house in the multiethnic south London neighborhood of Brixton is a mosque. But the fact that would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid and the alleged 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui both worshiped here during the mid-'90s has brought the Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre an unwelcome notoriety. Along with London's Finsbury Park Mosque and fundamentalist cleric Abu Qatada's prayer meetings near Baker Street, Brixton seemed yet another nexus of Islamic extremism in the capital...
There is no dome, no minaret, nothing but a small sign to indicate that this rundown Victorian house in the multiethnic south London neighborhood of Brixton is a mosque. But the fact that would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid and the alleged 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui both worshiped here during the mid-'90s has brought the Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre an unwelcome notoriety. Along with London's Finsbury Park Mosque and fundamentalist cleric Abu Qatada's prayer meetings near Baker Street, Brixton seemed yet another nexus of Islamic extremism in the capital...