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Desde el momento en que al joven Ishaq, a finales del siglo VII, se le encarga la construcción de la Cúpula de la Roca (Qubbat as-Sahra), emprende una recopilación de las diversas historias y leyendas asociadas a este espacio mítico en el que se concentra el ancimiento de las tres grandes culturas monoteístas. Combinando los relatos a que va teniendo acceso con el recuerdo de lo que le contara en su día su padre, que tuvo una participación act...

Describes the metamorphosis of Mohamed Makiya from a classic to a post-modern architect. The author examines his eclectic style and argues that he combines modern advances in technology and materials and the romance and mythology of the Islamic aesthetic past.

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This text is a study of the interplay between art and politics - of how culture, normally an unquestioned good, can play into the hands of power with devastating effects. Kanan Makiya uses the culture invented by Saddam Hussein as a window into the nature of totalitarianism.

The Rock of Jerusalem is one of the world's most spiritually resonant and politically contentious sites: where Adam first stepped upon leaving Paradise, Abraham attempted to sacrifice Isaac, Jesus preached, and Muhammad began his night journey to heaven, . Sorting through the rubble of the three competing faiths, Kanan Makiya has woven a vivid tapestry from centuries of legend and belief to imagine the origins of Islam's first monument, the Do...

The Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya brought the attention of the world to the brutality of Saddam Hussein's regime in his powerful 1989 bestseller Republic of Fear. Now, writing for the first time under his own name, Makiya confronts the broad realities of tyranny in the Middle East and the moral failure of Arab and pro-Arab intellectuals to repudiate it. Makiya first gives us the stories of Khalil, Abu Haydar, Omar, Mustafa, and Taimour-the Ara...