I always wanted to go to Istanbul and see the Hage Sopfia

For a long time now, I've been rather obsessed with Islamic tile patterns. Much of my artwork is rather flowing and freeform in comparison, but I have a particular love of detail and repetition, too (my heart leaped when I learned about tessellations along the lines of M C Escher). I have books about Islamic tiles and design, and which include examples of the incredible artworks, and some history. You might consider yourself lucky to be in Istanbul, where you can investigate the arts! I'd love to visit the city one day, and explore Istanbul and the entire Bosporus region, arts, culture, foods, music, etc.. It's one of my fantasy vacations. I can't agree more about Waldemar! I became acquainted with his art programs through Amazon, and not only were there not enough of them for me, some were removed, which made me quite sad. I'm delighted to have found this channel, and just hope that will bring us more of Waldemar's magical art instruction!

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Rüstem Pasa Mosque was built by the great Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan. He was an ethnic Armenian who as a young boy was taken from his Christian family by the government, made to convert to Islam in order to join the ranks of the Janissaries. (Christian boys were often forcibly taken away from Christian families, when the families could not pay their taxes which was imposed on religious minorities). Living a very long life (died at 98), Mimar Sinan is responsible for many architectural gems within Istanbul and elsewhere in the country. He is the main architect of the Top Kapi palace.

Have you visited the Rüstem Paşa Camii yet? It must be like discovering a lovely jewel under years of soil, finding a wonderful place where you didn't expect it.

@Timhall52 I saw your comment just as I was about to comment on the same thing…I’m also from Kentucky so I had to say hi! Hope you are well.

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Tim you are lovely!

@@shanamhollbertsalinas3622 please don’t hate on me for this, but are you saying something mean, flashing gang signs? Please tell me what your numbers are saying?

Same here!! It was so thoughtful for him to depict Islam and its culture in this way

Is he dying? He looks so unwell. Like he has a terminal illness

I was oddly emotional a couple minutes in. Caught me off-guard actually.

so he got hacked to death for his unconventional views on Islam?

@@brainwashington1332 yes he and his family. Islamic countries back in the 70’s looked very much like western countries with very few women wearing hijabs. The oppressive fundamentalist who came along later lied when they said it is required by Islam. It wasn’t so much that my teachers was telling us his views on how women should be treated, but he was telling us that oppressing women is not founded in the Islamic faith. He was very outspoken about this.

@@harrowgateguy its because of Wahabism sponsored by Saudi oil money. It has afflicted much of the Muslim world, it is known Salafism, fundamentalism, extremism, but the media never calls it Wahabism because it hits too close to home as the US is an Saudi ally

oh my goodness!! What an absolute shame; he sounded like an amazing person 😔💜

There are those who will twist religion into how THEY believe it should be instead of how it truly is in every religion it seems. The sad thing is they are the ones who are always highlighted and always used by those who wish to discredit faith as a whole or are the ways that attract those who just wish to be cruel or want to feel as if they can own another human life, so they follow the wrong teachings. They know deep down what they do is wrong, harming another is wrong, but they have their "religion" to cover up their hurtful, cruel deeds.

He does it for me, as well.

I watch each show a couple of times..you pick up more the second go round.

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I think people react that way because nowadays a lot of western culture and art is vilified because of colonialism but muslims doing the exact same thing is kind of sugarcoated by liberal intellectuals , At the same time muslims are vilified by conservatives. The hypocrisy is annoying from both sides.

SAME HERE LMAO !! its crazy the shit we wake up to sometimes im like wtf hahahahaha

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Yes it does.

Yeah too bad hes a moron and knows nothing about history and timelines.

Oh, that scene of the destruction was an arrow in my heart! I am not a religious person, but I can say that kind of wanton ruination is a Sin. The same one committed by the Taliban in Afghanistan, Daesh/ISIS erasing and destroying Assyrian art with power tools, 18th century Europeans crushing Roman sculptures/buildings to make lime, Emperor Theodosius having all "pagan" temples razed, the so-called Conquistadors melting down gold and silver artifacts, the army of the USSR desecrating and demolishing arts and literature from Chinese antiquity, the settlers of the Western Hemisphere from Canada to Argentina wiping out indigenous languages, religion, art, etc. To my non-religious being, it's all sinful.

Humans have a deepest propensity for destruction…and we do nothing to teach our offspring how to manage it, to be humane nit just human.

Flying Spaghetti Monster forever!!

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I feel the same way about Ecuadorian music.

mandingo music is the best

when I hear that music it make think that someone is going to lose his head

@@JamesSmith-ui2hv That's what makes music so interesting. Every one has her or his very own associations with it.

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@@mikeny5020 why?

Such a wonderful and beautiful culture. One must realise that Islamic culture was the foundation of much of European culture. Janette Iacuone.

Thankfully, there are still many highly informative interesting documentaries made. Suggest you boycott the mass media rubbish that sadly litters the internet.

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Did they try to renovate it ? Is that why they were doing that? Is it restored or rebuilt now? It was so sad to see them hacking away at those beautiful tiles. I wonder did people try and keep little pieces for themselves?

Thank you for the info, I truly had no idea. I feel like when it comes to these places you discussed people in the west for some weird reason seem to lump all these places, people, cultures, religion in such condensed forms that you loose individuality & the vast differences in the people. Because it seems to me (and my very limited knowledge😊) things are very different from one area to the next.

yeah I thaught the same :(

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Dylan O’Mara, Well said! I thought the same thing. Cheers from me, Jessica O’Mara (LOL, but true).

@@Jessica-kk1cz wow I’ve never met another O’Mara besides my family, can I guess where you live lol. America, Wales or England.

@@dylanomara2437 Indeed! Our name is more rare than some other Irish names. I’ve never met another O’Mara either, other than close relatives. We’re in the US. Our family is on 23andme and Ancestry, too. My great grandparents were from Cork and Western counties in Ireland and came over (more out of necessity than choice) originally to Massachusetts. Later, they settled in NYC, then later the Philadelphia area, and then my immediate family came to the Washington DC area many years ago, and we’ve been here since. Most of our family are still in the Philly, New Jersey area, though a few folks went west to California and then, again, there’s my smaller family in DC. I’ve read our name means "merry", which sounds about right, since we love to making jokes and laughing and making other folks laugh, though we also have our more reflective side, too, and love learning about other folks, cultures, arts, sciences and technologies. Maybe that’s why we both ended up on this video about this beautiful Islamic art, and we both noticed and made comments about the narrator’s thoughts about the world events at the time, and the importance that folks not generalize the events of that day to the entirety of Islamic folks and culture. Could be a little more than random coincidence we ended up in that same place … 😉

@@Jessica-kk1cz Our family name got changed when we moved to Ireland from Wales due to there being “to many of you”… I regret to say I have forgotten the original family name but it’s something like O’Phara. I know my pop’s family moved to America from Ireland so that would be interesting to find out. Find me on fb if you want my names the same living in New Zealand.

It's unfortunate so much was destroyed by fellow muslims