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This colorful calendar of events is an approach that Smith, 56, first attempted with a book on Japan. To get the best possible photographs for his present work,* he mounted flimsy scaffolds in Moorish mosques, prowled the chill cellars of El Escorial, and nestled in the niches of the Prado. One of the most fascinating chapters of the book depicts the 800-year-long confrontation of Moor and Christian (see color pages), a conflict that forged the Spanish spirit, united a nation and changed Spain's art forever...
Under the Omayyad caliphs, Moorish Spain became the strongest, richest nation in Europe. Shortly after the first millennium, the caliphate splintered into tiny Moorish principalities. In the era typified by El Cid, the soldier of fortune who served both Moslems and Christians, chivalry became a warring way of life for Christians. Spanish knights or caballeros, often owning nothing but horse and armor, served to oust the Moors. Monks wore chain mail and were led by bishops wielding battle-axes. The conflict, for Christians, took on the character of a holy crusade, but it was warfare often punctured by periods...
...acre campus, with its mixture of Moorish sandstone and modern concrete buildings, Arab thobes mix with Indian saris and African robes. Although 59 nations, stretching from China to the U.S., are represented, 75% of A.U.B.'s 3,245 students and two-thirds of its 628 teachers are Arabs, and any attempts at pro-U.S. or Christian indoctrination are forbidden. This follows the dictum of A.U.B.'s founder, Missionary Daniel Bliss, that "a man, white, black, or yellow, Christian, Jew, Mohammedan or heathen may enter . . . and go out believing in one God, or many Gods...
...architecture has recourse to Moorish arches of the typical multifoil horseshoe type. In keeping with the mellow glow that permeates the script, Armstrong has used light buff walls with abstract Turkish surface decoration--a gold for Duke Orsino's palace, and in pink and blue for Lady Olivia's house...
Simply getting a country in business at all can be a formidable task. Mauritania, for example, is practically a movable country, whose Moorish nomads wander after water in passportless circles through neighboring Mali and Algeria. Since every country must have a capital, Mauritania had to build one from scratch: Nouakchott (pop. 8,000), a clump of pastel cubes on a bleak stretch of sand dunes near the coast. In Laos, there are so few trained government elite-about 100 in all-that Cabinet making is essentially a game of musical chairs. Ethnic vivisection abounds nearly everywhere. The Somali peoples...