Étiquette : islam

ahmadfahoum:

İlk Hilal-ı Ahmer Sergisi, İstanbul 1917-1335

The First Red Crescent Exhibition, Istanbul 1917-1335

This is a guidebook for a health exhibition organized by the Ottoman Red Crescent Society during World War I. The exhibition is part of the Ottoman wartime propaganda, but also a carefully organized exhibition to display the work of the Red Crescent.

İlk Hilal-ı Ahmer Sergisi, İstanbul 1917-1335

The First Red Crescent Exhibition, Istanbul 1917-1335

worldhistoryfacts:

Twelfth century chess pieces from Nishapur, Iran. In place of the modern queen, medieval Persians played with viziers (chief ministers for the Caliph); bishops were elephants. Chess came to Persia from India, where it was invented in the 6th century. Many sets in the Islamic world used abstract figurines like these because of the religious prohibition on creating human and animal images.

prints:

The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew, of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. The subject of the image—whose identity remains uncertain but is speculated to be that of Jonathan Briley — was one of the people trapped on the upper floors of the skyscraper who apparently either fell as they searched for safety or jumped to escape the fire and smoke. At least 200 people fell or jumped to their deaths that day.

Regarding the social and cultural significance of The Falling Man, theologian Mark D. Thompson says that “perhaps the most powerful image of despair at the beginning of the twenty-first century is not found in art, or literature, or even popular music. It is found in a single photograph.”

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