Contemplating al-Andalus

breathed life into a historical architecture - a beautifully written, sentient focused analysis on the importance of seeing through 'the eye of the heart', which is a concept derived from Islam. the author uses Mezquita of Cordoba to emphasize experiences - whether it is merely something you see, hear, smell, or touch - to be viscerally part of you, that is the way one lives fully. the author even discussed about how far we have drifted from fulfilling the human needs, including community, by bringing up the occidental values of 'corporate paternalism' colonizing our current times.