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Hermitage Magazine Nr 8, Autumn
2007 Hermitage Director's Letter Islam tends to be regarded by Europeans as a foreign and hostile force threatening Western civilization. This threat is to a large extent has been caused by Western paranoia. Islam has always belonged to Mediterranean civilization and today has become an important part of everyday life in many European and American countries. In Russia, Islam has been a religion and way of life for many of its inhabitants (in Siberia, the Volga, and Northern Caucasus). Islam's exoticism introduces variety into our common culture, although it contains less fundamental differences than Buddhism or Confucianism. The aim of a multi-purpose museum like the State Hermitage is to help different cultures understand each other. Popular culture can also help in this understanding. Popular Islamic culture includes talismans, incantations, numerous amulets on walls and in cars, and is on the edge of real culture, on the edge of real alchemy, which can give rise to hope because it is very human in its sincerity and naturalness, and is able to withstand western pop culture because it is inflexibility. It will either die, or continue to resist vigorously. It has potential to offer and does offer the world alternatives to sushi and McDonalds. These are primarily the hookah, coffee, and traditional baths - hammam. The music market is flooded with popular Turkish and Arabic music. Iranian cinema is already included in the treasury of world cinematography. This is all combined with the general strengthening of the role religion plays in society and politics throughout the world. Although no solution has been found to the arising problems, there are old traditions and the Russian Recipe among them. The point is that we have always lived and will always live together. We share a common history and a common fate and will therefore come to understand each other. The museum and its magazine intend to talk about this common unity.
Mikhail Piotrovsky Magazine Table of Contents: Collection God Loves Beauty Nezami's Khamse: The Story of the Manuscript. Love Stories in Persian
Miniature Paintings Prayer Rug Namazlyk Collection Masterpieces An Ambassador of Islam in the World of Arts Interview with Professor Nasser D. Khalili Word The Secret of Osman's Koran Robert Irwin's Arabian Nightmare Amulets and Talismans A Cobweb of Faith: Report from Israel Photo Session Muslim Women Sites The Dreamers' Mosque The Travels of the Emir of Bukhara Retrospective Academic Classics Report Books in Saharan Sands Terra Incognita Hammam - Cult of Purity Bridge over Gehenna ... Sinan - Suleyman's Slave Rumi and Whirling Dervishes Country of Fragrances Encyclopedia of Style Yemenite Dress Code First Impressions are Half the Battle: Sufi Caps from Turkish Tombstones Movie Theatre Movies that Open Eyes Where the Golden Apricot Grows: The Armenian International Film Festival
All of Nekrošius! Investments into Arts Market of Muslem Art Portrait Queen of Architecture Zaha Hadid Slavoj Zizek's View on Islam Events Time to Tell Stories Hermitage 20/21 and USA Today Charles Saatchi: The Portrait of a Contemporary Collector Venice and the Islamic World Boris Godunov in Baroque Style Special Items History of MOMU My Hermitage Memory and Myth Children's Page Shadow Show in Istanbul |
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