Les autres merveilles du monde dans la tradition arabe médiévale by Omayra Herrero Soto

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Aides à la navigation, pratique de la navigation et construction des paysages maritimes en Atlantique du Nord-Est : quelques éléments de réflexion by Pascal Arnaud

“…They have been observed for a longer time, are sometimes still preserved, and have been described in texts as being endless repetitions of the lighthouse of Alexandria (Egypt). They can give rise to a biased view of reality. …”
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The Muezzin's balcony in the minarets of Iraq until the end of The Age of Al-Khani شرفة المؤذن في مآذن العراق حتى نهاية العصر الألخاني by Dhia Nema Mohammad ضياء نعمه محمد

“…We have known this element with different designations in Islamic countries, and we have stood on it, and we have found that it differs rhetorically and agrees with content, and as we have tried to return the first beginnings of this element in Islamic architecture, we have shown the role of the Islamic faith in finding it and defining its career path so that no harm occurs in the place it supervises and we discussed what This architectural element, like other elements of Islamic architecture, was subjected to many theories in which orientalists attributed it to the Christian churches' towers, and some of them returned it to the pagan temples, Roman guard posts and observation, or to the lighthouse of Alexandria or to the Babylonian zigzags or guard towers in the Arabian Peninsula. …”
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