Ports and Fortifications in the Muslim World. Coastal Military Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the Ottoman Period. FIFAO 85. Arts décoratifs – Arts appliqués Montaigne or Fustel de Coulanges

Montaigne or Fustel de Coulanges

and explore the fine line between scholarly geography and sensationalism

In the shadow of the palaces

which opens permanently at La Cinémathèque française on January 13

the relationship to death

Ports and Fortifications in the Muslim World. Coastal Military Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the Ottoman Period. FIFAO 85. Arts décoratifs – Arts appliqués Montaigne or Fustel de CoulangesThe port occupies an important place in the Muslim imagination. From an economic perspective, ports are essential links in trade circuits and constitute significant sources of profit. Socially, ports are places of travel, pilgrimage, and exchange between civilizations. Politically, ports are strategic locations, frontiers, and points of conquest between the sea and the greenhouse. Port fortifications are a symbol of prestige for a city, the wall