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The publishers confidently claim that this is the first book of its kind to appear in Pakistan, and probably in the world. An immense amount of work has been done on Islamic Art in the West, but no Muslim or non-Muslim scholar has concentrated his gaze on its religious symbolism and its special place in Islamic civilization and culture. Professor Aziz explores these two facets of Islamic art with consummate skill without completely neglecting the role of time in ...
In Pakistani schools and colleges what is being taught as history is really national mythology, and the subjects of Social Studies and Pakistan Studies are nothing but vehicles of political indoctrination. Our children don't learn history. They are ordered to read a carefully selected collection of falsehoods, fairy tales and plain lies. Why and how has this come about? Who is reponsible for it? In what ways is this destroying the country? Why doesn't anyone ...
In July 2004 1 published my 2-volume study, The Meaning of Islamic Art, which had taken exactly 24 years to research, write, revise and seek a publisher, I had begun my study of the subject in 1980 and the final manuscript was ready in early 1994. It had taken me exactly 10 years to find a publisher for it. when The Meaning of Islamic Art appeared I was fighting for my life at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore with slender chance of ...