Faris Hajamaideen
a chapter from the thesis Body, Soul, and Architecture: A Study of the Premodern Islamic and Western Traditions.

Sinan also claims, rather confidently, that his mosques were a re-creation of Paradise, here on earth. In this manner Sinan joins the likes of Avicenna, al-Ghazali, and al-Suhrawardi, philosophers and sages who granted a preview of the illuminated abode of the afterlife as a way to motivate the faithful to practice a life of wisdom and virtue.

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