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Qur’anic Calligraphy in Mosque Architecture: Text, Power and Sacred Space
Why do particular Qur’anic verses appear on a dome, a mihrab, a threshold or a lamp—and what changes when those words are read in the precise place for which they were chosen?
The new illustrated study, Qur’anic Calligraphy in Mosque Architecture, follows that question from Islam’s Three Harams—Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, the Prophet’s ﷺ Mosque in Medina and al-Haram al-Sharif/al-Aqsa in Jerusalem—through Umayyad, Fatimid, Seljuk, Mamluk, Ottoman, Safavid and modern patronage. Its chronology identifies the verse, inscription site, political order and evidential basis for each case, while distinguishing documented interpretation from careful contextual inference.
Special attention is given to calligraphic bands around dome bases: words that encircle worshippers, articulate the transition from wall to vault and turn architecture into a field of recitation. The study also examines historic mosque lamps. It corrects a common conflation at al-Aqsa: the fourteenth-century Tankiz lamp carries Qur’an 9:18, whereas the Light Verse—Qur’an 24:35—is characteristic of other Mamluk mosque lamps whose luminous function makes the text’s placement especially resonant.
The appendix consolidates 115 cited āyāt from 27 sūrahs in canonical order. Every āyah is given in verified Uthmani Arabic with Sahih International English immediately beneath it and a direct Quran.com link. The English is reproduced under the stated digital-reuse permission with attribution; Quran.com’s explanatory-note callouts are omitted, while the verse wording and punctuation are preserved. The dossier includes historic photographs, object records, governance context and 29 verified sources.
Readers are also invited to consider the larger historical horizon. The Qur’an describes the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ as al-nabī al-ummī—often translated “the unlettered Prophet” (Qur’an 7:157) but perhaps untaught Prophet is more apt —whose proclamation ignited a revolution in moral, religious and educational consciousness. Within a generation of his death, the Sasanian Empire had ended and the Christian Byzantine Empire had lost Syria, Palestine and Egypt, although the Byzantine state survived until 1453, as his message continued to spread. Across later centuries, diverse Muslim societies translated, tested and extended Greek, Persian, Indian and other inheritances, advancing astronomy and related sciences alongside medicine, mathematics, engineering, water systems and institutions of urban life. Through awqāf, lived Muslim culture redistributed wealth and endowed schools, hospitals, fountains, libraries and devotional buildings. This was not a one-cause civilisational miracle, but a cumulative human achievement within an Islamic moral and institutional worldview whose intellectual, charitable and architectural legacy remains vibrantly present today.
With its chronological tables, dome-band studies and forensic source notes, the study treats Qur’anic calligraphy not as ornamental filler, but as revelation situated within devotional architecture, worship, patronage and political history.
Download the complete illustrated study in PDF format below:
Quranic_Calligraphy_in_Mosque_Architecture (1)Download #Allah #civilisation #egalitarianism #equality #hadith #institutionBuilding #islam #justice #povertyAlleviation #Quran #religion #science #technology #wealthRedistribution -
Pages 8 & 9 of my One Copy #zine I'm working on.
"Dragons who steal from the people and hoard wealth find themselves defeated. The Wealth is redistributed to the people."
#write #zines #dragons #fairytales #capitalistsAreTheDragons #WealthRedistribution
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🚀 Oh look, rich folks in Europe could solve all our budget woes! Because clearly, the best strategy is to assume the ultra-rich will happily part with their cash to fund bureaucrats' fantasies. 🙄 Can't wait for the next proposal: taxing unicorn tears. 🦄💰
https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-ultra-rich-could-fund-a-substantial-part-of-the-eus-budget #richpeopleproblems #budgetwoes #taxunicorntears #bureaucraticfantasies #wealthredistribution #HackerNews #ngated -
Neil Rimer Advocates for Wealth Redistribution in Tech Amid Rising AI Billionaire Wealth
📰 Original title: Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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@alexisbushnell yes :( which means we can (only?) kick them out by taking back ownership of the government. #TaxTheRich #WealthRedistribution
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People who can't work for a living have to find some other way to pay their dues to the morbidly rich.
And now tell me again how capitalism differs from cancer?
#MorbidlyRich #capitalism #WorkForALiving #redistribution #WealthRedistribution #CapitalismIsCancer #EndCapitalism
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We’re all suffering the impact of #neoliberalism in one way or another. Growing #WealthInequity due to #FinancialDeregulations; increasing #CostOfLiving due to #Greedflation; and low quality of #SocialServices delivery due to #StateCapture. So it’s no surprise that we live in an economic climate ripe for another dambusting crash that will take us all down with it. Of course, it can all be stopped before there’s no way out of the disaster (both economic and ecological). All that is required is political will. If a madman like #tRump is able to upend USian social and democratic institutions to suit his liking, imagine what a social minded leader could do. It’s not as if no one knows of alternatives to deliver better outcomes for all.
Here is an Australian perspective:
https://socialjusticeaustralia.com.au/alternative-to-neoliberal-economics/#AusPol #SocialDemocracy #DenisHay #SocialJusticeAustralia #SustainableDevelopment #WealthRedistribution #SocialSafetyNet #NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #Antifa #AntiOligopoly
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@joannejacobs
Maybe I’m an exception. Without turning this toot into a book, let me affirm right here that for this #boomer, life has been just as hard as it has been for anyone born after my generation. I’ll add that I was only able to afford my own house at the age of 72 and only with the help of close family members . Nothing has been given to me on a plate as an adult just because I grew up in the post-war years of relatively favourable redistribution of wealth — all of which, and more, has been clawed back in the last 40 yrs or so. As a parting shot, let me just say that all of our collective problems (talking about the 90% of our society) stem from the #neoliberalism which has ensured run-away inequity and the concentration of wealth in the remaining 10% — because we’ve *All* allowed it to occur (due to apathy, brain-washing, stupidity, misinformed, and/or many other faux pas) since the late 70s. All of this to say, I grow tired of all the finger pointing to a single generation for all the ills suffered by society since then. Believe me when I say, I never voted/asked for any of it.Our first step out of this mess is a simple one, *Join Your Union* and fight for what is due to us all.
#AusPol #CostOfLiving #inequity #WealthRedistribution #antifa #TaxTheRich #JoinYourUnion #TaxReformNow #WorkersUnite #HomeOwnershipIsNotAnInvestment #HumanRights #SocialDemocracy #VoteResponsibly
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Sometimes infographics can help explain the utter insanity of income inequality:
#income #inequality #incomeinequality #econ #economics #wealthredistribution #poverty #wealth #billionaires #homeless #maga #fuckmaga #trump #grift #grifter #graft #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #donold #dipshitdonny #donaldvonshitsinpants #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason #uspol #uspolitics #politics #news #history -
AOC Exposes the Billionaire Myth as Katy Tur’s Awkward Reaction Sparks Debate
AOC exposed the truth about billionaire wealth on MSNOW, triggering an awkward media moment and reigniting debate about capitalism and inequality.
#AlexandriaOcasioCortez #AOC #billionaireWealth #capitalism #classInequality #corporateGreed #DemocraticSocialism #EconomicJustice #economicReform #JeffBezos #KatyTur #laborRights #meritocracy #msnbc #PoliticsDoneRight #ProgressivePolitics #taxTheRich #wealthInequality #wealthRedistribution #workersRights https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oUm -
#MissKittyPolitics #AI #Research one more drop and then I will catch up after a kitty break. Boop boop 💃💃💃 I wanted to get some focus back today. So far so good. This is about your money. It's not easy to look at but you have to want to change it honey!!! #WealthRedistribution #FraudByLaw
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#MissKitty #Self-Service #Democracy #AI cannot summarize this folder properly. Too much. Would require a full report. Essentially everything is in service of #ending #homelessness including #election #exploits and #decentralized AI. #IndyNews #WealthRedistribution #Subsidies #GovernorCorruption
#MissKitty DEMOCRACY Docs - Go... -
The Billionaires! They’re… they’re becoming sentient! Developing class consciousness?!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXNt8VWjOHG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
@perezbrenna #perezbrenna # #news #funny #satire #drama #history #wealthredistribution #eattherich #classconsciousness #billionaires -
#eattherich #epsteinclass #trumpsteinclass #allpowertothepeople #nopowertothepigs #wealthinequality #incomeinequality #rememberthebastille #uspol #uspolitics #billionaires #wealthandprivilege #wealthredistribution #unionize #workersrights #jobsafety #workplacesafety #medicare #medicaid #healthinsurance #bankruptcy #eattherich #unitedhealthcare
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Bezos - a vile human being:
https://youtu.be/nKOncH9a2Wc?si=_btyMEEBIbGUHgVb
#amazon #laurensanchez #jeffbezos #bezos #eattherich #epsteinclass #trumpsteinclass #allpowertothepeople #nopowertothepigs #wealthinequality #incomeinequality #rememberthebastille #uspol #uspolitics #billionaires #wealthandprivilege #wealthredistribution #unionize #workersrights #jobsafety #workplacesafety #allpowertothepeople #nopowertothepigs -
One can only hope she goes out choking on such filthy wealth:
#amazon #laurensanchez #jeffbezos #bezos #eattherich #epsteinclass #trumpsteinclass #allpowertothepeople #nopowertothepigs #wealthinequality #incomeinequality #rememberthebastille #uspol #uspolitics #billionaires #wealthandprivilege #wealthredistribution -
#ECB, #BoE will aggravate the crisis (again) by hiking #rates
#Theft #WealthRedistribution #banksters #ftfy
https://www.reuters.com/business/jp-morgan-sees-ecb-hiking-rates-april-july-rising-inflation-risks-2026-03-20/ -
Right wing extremism isn't a mystery.
"The year before a fulminating Nazi rally in a packed Madison Square Garden in New York, FDR warned that the global rise of fascism was the result of democratic governments doing the opposite of the New Deal and protecting an economic status quo enriching a tiny handful at the expense of everyone else." https://mastodon.online/@davidsirota/116066779899356262
You say good-bye, I say hello. Hello, hello 🎶
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I was just reading that Elon Musk as of January is worth about $800 billion. If you were to tax him at a rate of 99%, he'd still be worth $8 billion. That is just obscene. Society is broken.
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🚀 Breaking news: #AI is not the end of the world... unless you're a software developer who loves "minimal" code and "human touch" ✍️. Fear not, friends, because AI is apparently here to do what no coder could: bring about a utopian wealth redistribution 💸. Who knew the real enemy was syntax errors all along? 😂
https://antirez.com/news/158 #Utopia #MinimalCode #WealthRedistribution #SyntaxErrors #SoftwareDev #HackerNews #ngated -
Money is finite. The world is a closed system. In order do make huge amounts of money, you have to take it from somewhere. You do not generate this money out of nowhere.
#WealthDistribution #WealthRedistribution #Oligarchy #capitalism #chokepointCapitalism #predatoryCapitalism #corporateGreed #HumansBeforeProfit #oligarchy #Corporatocracy #SocialInequality
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How Bitcoin’s Success Could Be Fueling Poverty for Latecomers and Non-Holders, ECB Economists Claim - Bitcoin’s rise is enriching early adopters at the expense of society, according to... - https://news.bitcoin.com/how-bitcoins-success-could-be-fueling-poverty-for-latecomers-and-non-holders-ecb-economists-claim/ #wealthredistribution #digitalcurrency #satoshinakamoto #cryptocurrency #earlyadopters #inequality #latecomers #democracy #featured #bitcoin #poverty #crypto #btc #ecb
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The strongest argument against Oregon's wealth-redistribution measure 118 is that it will hurt low-margin businesses. Here's their counterargument:
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"In 2019, when she was twenty-seven, she received an e-mail from her family’s financial adviser: she had been named a primary beneficiary in her grandmother’s will, which meant that, when Traudl died, Engelhorn would inherit tens of millions of euros." —Joshua Raffa for The New Yorker.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/09/how-to-give-away-a-fortune
#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Wealth #WealthRedistribution #CitizenCouncils
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Oregonians will have a chance to directly vote to tax wealthy corporations and give the money back to citizens. Any downsides, or is this exactly what we want?
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So, another evil thing in the world is how countries are given loans (which are often mismanaged) instead of just being helped out by other countries. The indebted countries are then forced to stoop to #environmental degradation (like selling forests to mining interests) and #HumanRights violations to pay back the debts.
Activists Disrupt Meeting to Demand '#LoanSharks' IMF and World Bank Cancel All Debt
by Brett Wilkins
Oct 11, 2022"We need #localization and #ecological #sustainability for the people, planet, and peace," said #CodePink's Nancy Mancias. "We are calling on the IMF and #WorldBank to end its debt trap monetary practices which are causing countries to sink further down into economic crises."
Explainer: Who holds #Ghana's debt and what restructuring is planned?
By Rachel Savage and Marc Jones
December 9, 2022https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/who-holds-ghanas-debt-what-restructuring-is-planned-2022-12-09/
Critics Say IMF Loan Fees Are Hurting Nations in Desperate Need
Democratic lawmakers say the global fund’s surcharges for emergency relief siphon away money that countries need to fight the pandemic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/business/economy/imf-surcharges.html
#IMFLoans #IMFLoanSharks #CancelAllDebt #TaxTheRichToHelpThePoor #WealthRedistribution #ChineseLoans #WorldBank
