Sultan Script…

Exploring Nahr el-Kalb (Photo: Emily O'Dell)

The first writing my students and I encountered at Nahr el-Kalb was a 14th century Arabic inscription commemorating the building of a bridge by Sultan Barquq–whose funerary complex in Cairo is one of my favorite “Sufi” spaces in the Middle East…

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