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Culture came to you voluntarily Proudly drawing its fowing tailsYou deserve this more than othersSince your Sheikh honoured your dwellers

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 The meaning of Islamic culture in this context becomes entangled with theIslamicconcept of civilisation, meaning that it becomes a civilised action and not a mereaspectof civilisation. At this point, choosing Sharjah means a lot.For the last three decades in particular, the Emirate strived hard incessantl to!eeppace with an uphill climb that simultaneousl combines e"cacious culture andcivilised

action on the same trac!, with nothing separating them. The leader of thisgloriousmarch, #is #ighness Shei!h $r Sultan %in &uhammad Al 'asimi, (AE Supreme)ouncil&ember and *uler of Sharjah personall supervised the cultural and civilisedactions inan ascending crescendo in unison with a determined will that accommodates,

In Sharjah the )apital of Islamic )ulture, &uslims discover consistencies betweenmodernism and post modernism+ the modernism of the cits urban landscapeandmodern resources+ and between loo!ing forward to the future while preserving

thepast and the heritage.

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 -either entirel the conservative vernacularism of wholescale historical

mimicr, nor altogether the neovernacularism of fragmentar pastiche,

this urban assemblage embraces these two distinct design approaches atthe level of the individual buildings, but uni/es them at the urban scale in

what could be called neoregional urbanism.

old meets new

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0The more mos1ues we have, the more we will be able to build a virtuous societ

&asjid Al -oor2

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