fahim mohammed
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It was few years ago that I undertook a journey, with my family, across Spain. We spent a whole summer there..three months. It was too short for me. Many lifetimes, would be too short.
Two images are shown below:
The first one from Toledo in Spain and the second from Fez in Morocco. What do these two cities have in common is what interests me.
It is the late 12th century. Seville, Cordoba, Toledo are intellectually and economically at their Zenith. There are thinkers, masters of medicine, economics, astronomy, music..a crucible of intelligent thought, the results are what we see today.
I mention only three names from there..brilliant minds on earth..Musa Bin Maymun, Ibn Rushd and Al Bitruji. From Toledo to Fez they had to go. And all three died within 8 years of each other. Not many know of them. The interested reader shall be rewarded with many not very well known facts.
Toledo, home of Miguel De Cervantes and El Greco. Seville, where the palace shall become the Alcazar. Ibn Rushd would later be depicted by a future Renaissance painter named Raphael in the fresco ' The School of Athens' as the greatest philosopher of all times.
All things must pass. Even brilliant minds and great civilizations.
Two images are shown below:
The first one from Toledo in Spain and the second from Fez in Morocco. What do these two cities have in common is what interests me.
It is the late 12th century. Seville, Cordoba, Toledo are intellectually and economically at their Zenith. There are thinkers, masters of medicine, economics, astronomy, music..a crucible of intelligent thought, the results are what we see today.
I mention only three names from there..brilliant minds on earth..Musa Bin Maymun, Ibn Rushd and Al Bitruji. From Toledo to Fez they had to go. And all three died within 8 years of each other. Not many know of them. The interested reader shall be rewarded with many not very well known facts.
Toledo, home of Miguel De Cervantes and El Greco. Seville, where the palace shall become the Alcazar. Ibn Rushd would later be depicted by a future Renaissance painter named Raphael in the fresco ' The School of Athens' as the greatest philosopher of all times.
All things must pass. Even brilliant minds and great civilizations.