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Nov 28, 2009 11:48am

Letter from Vietnam, December 2009 Contemplating the Moon through a window This is the meaning of the Vietnamese 'nhan' and seems to me to be the equivalent of 'kayf' in Yemen; the desire to shake off the burden of daily......

Wind Towers, Ice Houses and Towers of Silence; The Bride of the Desert

Nov 22, 2009 11:36am

Yazd, Iran "This was the city of Yazd, a fine, clean city with magnificent bazaars, perennial streams and verdant trees, whose population are merchants of the Shafi'ite rite." so wrote Ibn Battuta, although he never writes that he ever actually......

Poets, scholars and sufis of Khorasan

Nov 15, 2009 4:05am

Khorasan; Mashad, Torbat i-Jam, Tus, Sarakhs, Torbat-i-Heydarieh, Nishapur. We had become a spectacle, the entertainment of the day; a host of foreign women struggling with chadors despite the best efforts and ministrations of the pilgrim guides sent to help us.......

The Warrior's fire and the Throne of Solomon

Nov 9, 2009 8:28am

North-Western Iran, October 2009 When I was in Kenya on Ibn Battuta's trail earlier this year, I came across two symbols, one at Gede which looked like a stylized cypress tree I thought might be Iranian in origin, and another......

The deities of the Kushites and the XXVth Dynasty

Oct 15, 2009 8:56am

Jebel Barkal and Karima, Sudan Prior to the Meroitic period of 300BC to 300AD, the Kushite Kings of Egypt's 25th dynasty ruled both Egypt and Sudan from 747BC. As far back as 1500BC it was recognized that Jebel Barkal in......