EditorialKhalil Haqqani, a prominent figure among the Taliban, at Friday prayer at the Pul-i-Khishti mosque in Kabul on Aug. 20, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialTaliban fighter Zahed, assigned to guard the Sakhi Shrine, a Shia mosque and shrine, on patrol in the Kart-e-Sakhi neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 3, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialTaliban fighter Zahed, assigned to guard the Sakhi Shrine, a Shia mosque and shrine, on patrol in the Kart-e-Sakhi neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 3, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialKhalil Haqqani speaks in Kabul on Aug. 20, 2021. Before the city fell, Haqqani appeared at a mosque to help establish Taliban authority. When the Taliban declared a caretaker government, they appointed many loyalists, including Haqqani, from their rule in the 1990s. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialOttoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Sultan Ahmed Mosque or Blue Mosque. It was built by the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I between 1609 and 1616. Engraving by Lemaitre and Lalaisse. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844)...
EditorialMen pray over the body of Hussain, a victim of the suicide bombing attack outside the international airport a day earlier, during his funeral at a mosque outside of Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialA man attends Friday prayers at the Pul-i-Khishti Mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021, the first since the Taliban recently took control of the city. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialTaliban members greet each other during Friday prayers at the Pul-i-Khishti Mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialOttoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Sultan Ahmed Mosque or Blue Mosque. It was built by the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I between 1609 and 1616. Engraving by Lemaitre and Lalaisse. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844)...
EditorialView of the mosque and houses in Sennar, Sudan (bottom), and the ruins of the house of the Funj King of Sennar (top) on the Blue Nile. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Fl...
EditorialView of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque or the Blue Mosque, Istanbul. Built in the 17th century with five domes, six minarets and eight secondary domes. Moschea Sultan-Ahmed. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes An...
EditorialL' Atme?dan, Place of the former Hippodrome at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul (Turkey), signed: Frommel & Winkles sc, Fig. 10, p. 206, Frommel (sc.); Winkles (sc.), William A. Duckett, Th?ophile Gautier: La Turquie pittoresque: histoire, moeurs, descripti...