“See The Most Exquisite Mosques Around The World”

It also includes a seminary room, of course. — While this little building, located near Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, is Islamic and features prominently in my IHUM 242 class, it isn’t actually a mosque. (Wikimedia Commons)

My course on “The Humanities of the Islamic World” (IHUM 242) focuses on several of these mosques, so I commend the compilers of this photo essay on their excellent taste:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/lists/beautiful-mosques-around-the-world/

In his Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce (1842-ca. 1914) includes this entry: “Admiration: n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.”

P.S. When I was quite young, one of my fantasies was to become a great architect. The only thing that kept me from pursuing that path was an absolute and utter lack of even the slightest hint of visual-artistic talent. That hasn’t prevented some from going into the field nonetheless, but it stopped me. I would see a marvelous building, or an image of one, and — inspired — begin sketching one of my own. Unfortunately, though, all of my creations looked like boxes, or stacks of boxes. That discouraged me.

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“See the Most Exquisite Mosques Around the World”