The purpose of art is to enable the human ambience—the world in so far as it is fashioned by man—to participate in the order that most directly manifests Divine Unity.
Titus Burckhardt, from Sacred Art in East and West
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God has created lands with lakes and rivers for man to live. And the desert so that he can find his soul.
Tuareg Proverb
Holy Qur’ān, illuminated manuscript signed Tanam Al-Najmi Al-Maliki Al-Ashrafi, Egypt, 1489
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Bruno Barbey (French photographer, born in Morocco in 1941, he grew up in various parts of the country: Rabat, Tanger, Salé, Marrakech which influenced his photography, has dual nationality – French and Swiss – and is a Magnum Photos member), Fulani noblemen during the Durbar (end of Ramadan) in Kaduna, an assembly of tribesmen from all over the country, Kaduna, Nigeria, 1977. Picture courtesy the artist and Magnum Photos.
Pages from an illuminated manuscript of the Holy Qur’ān. And when it is said to them, “Believe in what Allah has revealed,” they say, “We believe [only] in what was revealed to us.” (Al-Baqarah 91)