Islam

¿Cómo podrían cientos de miles de turistas visitar un lugar de culto que sirve para la oración? Erdoğan desestimó estos problemas: «Como todas nuestras mezquitas, las puertas de Santa Sofía estarán ampliamente abiertas para locales y extranjeros, musulmanes y no musulmanes», declaró. Esa promesa ha demostrado desde entonces ser mentira

The history of Morocco is a succession of capitals. The successive dynasties, having overthrown the previous one, always create a new capital in their own tribal territory, spectacularly humiliating the city of their defeated opponent, looting and destroying it

He was born and grew up here in the neighborhood, went to this school, and although he spent most of his life away from here, as a miner, he returned after his retirement. He was pained by the state of the mosque. As the only resident of the old Afanour, he moved into the teacher’s room and restored the mosque complex with his own hands

Es particularmente interesante que el rostro de Noé esté cubierto con un velo, y también que esconda las manos –cubiertas de una pintura plana– en su túnica. Así es como se representa a Mahoma desde la Edad Media tardía