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The Middle East Garden Tradition
The Gardens of the Mughal Empire
Two new web sites focusing on gardens of the Middle East are now online. The Middle East Garden Tradition includes an ongoing catalog of Ottoman, Al-Andalus, Mughal, Syrian, and Persian gardens, as well as a catalog of plants of Al-Andalus, a glossary, a historical dictionary of Ottoman Turkish terms for gardens and gardening, and a bibliography. The Gardens of the Mughal Empire is an interactive web site that provides information about 11 gardens and sites, which center on Lahore in modern Pakistan.
Ismailimail 
Garden and landscape architecture in Muslim contexts, according to Professor Nanji, “has been an important expression of ethical assumptions about stewardship, ecology, and the presence of beauty in the design of the built environment”. The Shalimar Garden, like other Mughal gardens, “inspired poetry and literature, laden with symbolic references to the harmony of form and essence, the purity of water, the profusion of life, the transient and created nature of life, pointing ultimately to each individual’s destiny and the remembrance of whence he originated”.
Ref: http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=109492
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