Cordoba’s Casa Andulusi In Pursuit Of The Lost Civilization
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www.zamman.com Casa Andulisi with its tiny pools of flowers and colorfully ornamented walls is a Spanish Cordoban house from the 12th century al-Andalus period. This house that represents all the subtleties of the period has been turned into a museum.
The founders of the museum Roger Garaudy, a famous French thinker, and his Palestinian wife Salma al-Farouki, say the museum has been designed to bring out the influence of the Muslim al-Andulus throughout European civilization, and includes inventions from the Muslim of the era and objects from their daily articles are on display.
Each room of the house is designed to tell a story and the displays items ranging from metal coins of the al-Andalus era to potteries used in daily life, including sundials. The most important item Europeans inherited from the Muslim is certainly, paper, which was first introduced to the continent during the al-Andulus period. Accordingly, a mechanism which displays the paper production technique of the era is set in the center of the house and shows the various stages of paper production.
The museum hosts hundreds of visitors daily, and according to al-Farouqi, more important than the numbers, is the acclaim the museum receives from the visitors. Our hostess Salman al-Farouqi kindly answered questions Zaman asked. |
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