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Discussion published by Patricia Blessing on Sunday, September 16, 2018

CFP - International Journal of Islamic Architecture

Since 2012, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) has published, on a bi-annual basis, peer-reviewed articles on the urban design and planning, architecture and landscape architecture of the historic Islamic world – encompassing  the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia – but also the more recent geographies of Islam in its global dimensions.
Discussion published by Matthew Gordon on Thursday, September 13, 2018

Query - Q 59:6-7

Dear Colleagues,

This is a question I sent to other lists, so apologies if you already saw it. I wrote, in effect, to ask why Q. 59:6-7 appears in inscriptions on mosques in the medieval period. The example I am looking at is the inscription that appears to have been ordered up by Ahmad ibn Tulun for his famous mosque in al-Qata'i. The verses are used as proof text for fay', that I understand, but why include them in inscriptions of this kind?

thanks, Matthew Gordon

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