Eco-mosque is another powerful symbol of Islamic ingenuity | Bilal Badat | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/24/eco-mosque-wind-turbine
Traditional Muslim societies therefore had no qualms about absorbing and learning from the cultures that they encountered and adjusting them within the philosophical framework of #Islam: Islamic #architecture is, and always has been, a medium for syncretism rather than proselytisation.