Last Shaker Village. It is in New Gloucester Maine I hear their library has an amazing collection of primary and secondary sources regarding not only the Shakers but other radical religions in the U.S.
Will answer brief, ready-reference questions by phone, email or letter. Quality resources for research!
US/Moroccan News blog -Anouar Majid is Director of the Center for Global Humanities and Vice President for Global Affairs at the University of New England in Maine, USA. He has written many books and articles on the West, Islam, and the clash of ideologies in the modern world. Majid is also a novelist, the author of Si Yussef (1992, 2005).
little furniture is traditionally used for daily life in Islam,
on a basic foundation of calligraphy, geometry and, in architecture, the repetition and multiplication of elements based on the arch. "Allied and parallel to these are floral and figural motifs,"
Mahal which, with its rippled effect, suggests that the tomb is set in a tank of water. The decoration... does not imitate the water... in precise details, but it conveys the idea of water...