 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Oneplace project winds down; ARTS DIARY.(Features)
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Byline: Philip Key
ONEPLACE, the ambitious three-year landscape-based contemporary art programme at Tatton Park in Knutsford, has come to an end.
The programme offered new opportunities to artists as celebrated and diverse as sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, film-maker Rob Vale, composer Christopher Mayo and sound artist Lucie Potter.
But, integral to its programming was a series of artist-led workshops, involving a range of community, youth groups and school pupils.
The latest and final community group to benefit from the exploration of ...
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SYMBOL ...OR NOT
Magazine article from: Islamic Horizons
; ...Almoravids (1056-1147 CE) and the Almohads (1130-1269 CE) from Western Sahara...Fatimids. Completed in 1153 CE by the Almohads, the Tinmal Mosque is located in the...not use "Sunni" minarets at all. The Almohads experimented and likely placed the Tinmal...
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The Moses of Cairo.(Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Policy Review
; ...erudition, Berber fundamentalists called the Almohads--literally, the Confessors of the...In the course of their conquest, the Almohads persecuted Jews in particular. The Almohad...only in secret. At age 21, when the Almohads invaded Cordoba, Maimonides emigrated...
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Through Time.(history of Morocco)
Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures
; ...The Almoravids, a Berber clan, control Morocco. 1147-14th Century The Almohads, another Berber group, defeat the Almoravids and gain control of Morocco. The Almohads and their leader, Abd el-Mounin, bring stability to the area and lead...
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MOROCCO: Morocco: From Empire to Independence
Magazine article from: The Middle East Journal
; ...late 7th century, through the demise of the two ideologically-motivated Hispano-Maghribi empires of the Almoravids and Almohads, and the emergence of successor territorially -based Berber tribal entities, such as the Marinids and Wattasids. The fifth...
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The early reconquest episcopate at Cuenca, 1177-1284
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...Reconquest effort. A useful micro-model for examining many of these elements is the town of Cuenca. Captured from the Muslim Almohads in 1177, it was designated as an episcopal see virtually at the outset. The shape it would take as town and bishopric on...
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Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and Conflict
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...kings who followed. Roth then proceeds to the North African invasions under the Almoravids in the eleventh century and the Almohads in the twelfth, and both the Muslim and Jewish minorities under Christian rule during the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries...
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Minaret: Symbol of Islam.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...Fatimids, who were ideologically opposed to the mosque tower. Although the Almoravids did not construct such towers, the Almohads conceived of them as "architectural statements . . . of the Almohad offensive against the Christian reconquest of Spain...
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Blue seas and perfect greens With luxurious cabins, helpful crew and golf both on shore and off, a Silversea cruise is just the ticket, says Adam Ruck
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...maritime experiences most of the way from Casablanca to Rabat, while a coachload of our fellow travellers learned all about the Almohads and Almoravids on the four-hour journey to Marrakesh. Eric and his wife Liz did Marrakesh with Silversea three years ago...
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ONCE THERE WAS AN EMPIRE HERE
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; ...courtly, aristocratic tradition was interrupted by the invasion in 1090 of two North African Berber sects, the Almoravids and Almohads, who established a more modest style of life and art. But opulence returned with the rule of the Nasrids (1230 to 1492...
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THE HOUR; Marrakech Expressions
Newspaper article from: Forward
; ...times will seem no less mad, no less bloody, no less given to folly than the times of the Berbers, the Almoravids, the Almohads, the Wattasids and the rest. One weeps for the endlessness of it all, wonders whether peace is inherently veiled, slaughter...
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