The true Islamic Renaissance is in fact present and growing stronger in Dubai and the other GCC nations. The Renaissance is related to business along side the religion
The true Islamic Renaissance is in fact present and growing stronger in Dubai and the other GCC nations. The Renaissance is related to business along side the religion
Tall buildings do not make a rtenaissance.
And just like all the other one-commodity powers of the past, this too shall pass. 100 years from now the whole middle east will lie in ruins, the oil long gone, their cities lying in ruins and in a perpetual state of civil war. The sheiks will have long fled after fleecing every last cent from under the deserts.
Calling that a renaissance is misleading, especially when they are paying foreigners to build these buildings (and the rest of their infrastructure). Let’s see what Dubai looks like 50 years after the oil wells run dry.
See:
http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/11/10/burj-khalifa-toilets-poop-waste/
Great building you show there. The tower’s architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago, with Adrian Smith as chief architect, and Bill Baker as chief structural engineer. The primary contractor was Samsung C&T of South Korea.
Mostly a mine’s bigger than yours contest among the nations with accidental oil wealth. Just heard the the Saudis plan to built the world’s tallest skyscraper and surge ahead of Dubai or whoever has the tallest building now.
A real renassiance and wise use of their oil money.
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Fascinating, the game board on which you set your pieces. Presenting the Renaissance Center , Detroit MI, built in the 1970s to show that the city would recover from the riots and decay of the 60s. Unfortunately, the crime and mayhem in the streets and the corruption in City Hall dictated a different outcome, just as the honor killings and beheadings of innocents as well as the rise of Muslim Brotherhood to governmeantal authority predict a similar outcome for the the Moslem Renaissance.