The travels of ibn battuta journal entry4/27/2024 She saw it once when she was a young woman visiting Budapest…” – Magda Szabó, Iza’s Ballad © 2018 MDR Iza loved the look of that hooded faceless figure. She saw her as her father described her, as a pint-sized redeemer spreading out her school atlas and examining the map of Budapest because she wanted to see a major city, a really big city, and trying to work out where in City Park the statue of the historian Anonymous might stand. “As he spoke Lidia could see the schoolgirl Isa discussing the future with her father. His was the first statue I encountered in Vienna when I expected it to be a composer’s. The artist Adolf Frankl used to reside in the same building, and Cafe Hawelka was one of the establishments that gave rise to the culture of “kafeehausliterature” - coffee house literature. What do we keep in the museums of our mind?Ĭafe Hawelka is mentioned twice in the second volume of the graphic novel Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi. What a beautiful thought: To tend the mind as musaeum, a place where the muses reside. But what we know as the Library of Alexandria was a musaeum or mouseion (predecessors of the word museum) - a space supposedly inhabited by the muses. In this day and age, a library and a museum have distinct functions and are differentiated by the items that they safeguard. I was about to check the flight route map on my screen when the captain announced that we were flying over Alexandria! “This must be a special place,” I thought to myself. This was an extremely lonely plane ride, but flying over this galaxy on land distracted me from my despondency and I remember having goosebumps as I gazed outside the airplane window. They know of a timeless and wondrous world where it is synonymous: These fascinating figures I have met through book pages, these travelers and writers! While both their travel tales are meant to be taken with a grain of salt, Ibn Battuta, lesser known, traveled more extensively. As one scholar insists, he is not the Marco Polo of the East, Marco Polo is the Ibn Battuta of the West. But he is famously known as Ibn Battuta, traveler and writer. Ibn Battuta of the 1300s, whose tomb I stumbled upon while getting lost in the Tangier medina, was also a judge. Women in the ancient world had few rights, but the virtues were represented by women. Apeth is usually associated with bravery, but it also portrays beings who engage their full potential, from strength to wit, to succeed in their endeavors. My camera focused on Apeth because it was the most well-preserved among the four. Four caryatids grace the facade of the library: Ennoia for Thought, Sophia for Wisdom, Episteme for Knowledge or Understanding, and Apeth for Excellence. The Library of Celsus was the third largest library in its time, after Alexandria and Pergamum. The museum created in tandem with the novel, and which won the European Museum of the Year award in 2014. Established as the Imperial Library by the Habsburgs in the year 1368, it is the largest library in Austria, boasting over 12 million items in its collection. The Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) turned 650 years old that year. Ismailov is persona non grata in his own homeland and his books remain banned in Uzbekistan. In The Devil’s Dance, Ismailov explores the idea of the rumored last novel of Qodiriy that the NKVD destroyed after his arrest. Qodiriy was arrested for an article he published and was later executed. Abdulla Qodiriy (1894–1938), author of the first Uzbek novel, translator of Russian literature into the Uzbek language, and nonfictional protagonist of Hamid Ismailov’s The Devil’s Dance.
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