Duke U Pr, 1994. Inferno The following slide show and four movies depict Islam's influence on architecture in Sicily and al-Andalus. The dome of the Comares Hall simulates the seven heavens common to Dante and Islam. This picture portrays a pagan, Jew, Moslem, and Christian seated as a woman rides by. Allegorically, the Lady's horse wades in the stream of Intelligence, the teachers practicing the art of Raymond Lull., perceiving their unity in the fountain of life and mystical truth.
Spices are the code of civilization.
The Istanbul market shaped the history we know. The singers, who entertained us that night, chant bardic poetry of battles and theft of livestock, reminiscent of the oral poetry of the Jahiliyya. Though facing us with one after another singing his story, the songs within the Bedouin community would be by all members with the audience answering in a call and response dialectic. This dialectic when written becomes the muwashshahhat, in which an aristocratic voice holds forth with a second voice, sometimes a woman's or a voice in another language or a rural dialect answers. The pattern via the troubadours became what we know as the sonnet.