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No art form in the Muslim world has suffered from the insidious influence of alien cultures as much as architecture. Yet it was only a few hundred years ago - a fragment of time in the great span of human history - that architecture became the greatest of Islamic cultural art forms.

LUNCHEON GIVEN BY MAULANA KAUSER NIAZI, NATIONAL COUNCIL - 1976-02-24

Posted March 24th, 2010 by heritage
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Maulana Kauser Niazi, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It was good of you to invite Me to this occasion not least because, although I enjoy and appreciate most of the art forms, I claim no special expertise in any of them.

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