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Vortex Toledo : a cosmopolitan world
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 | Devoted to the history of places in the world where people of many beliefs, from many cultures, could converse and weave a collaborative path the new knowledge. Often such places are identified by observing the flight paths as explorers of all kinds run from tyrants. What would a dynamic mapping through time of such flights look like in a graphical simulation? Each major cultural stream could be designated by a color, and the hues found the shared havens would be marvelous.
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 | Earlier and other names for this vortex: Constantinople, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Palermo, Alexandria, Shanghai, Rome, London, New York. Each city qualifies as cosmopolitan only during a certain period of its history. Follow the flights of refugee thinkers and you will find the applicable dates. A project of this vortex is to map these havens in time and space. 10/29/08 11:44 PM
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 | Cosmopolitan Cities (dates C.E.)
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| Palermo — 12th Century C.E.
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| "Institutionally, the Normans combined the administrative machinery of the Byzantines, Arabs, and Lombards with their own conceptions of feudal law and order to forge a completely unique government. Under this state, there was great religious freedom, and alongside the Norman nobles existed a meritocratic bureaucracy of Jews, Muslims, and Christians, both Catholic and Orthodox." —Wikipedia, "Normans", 12Mar08
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| Sea of Faith, by O'Shea — Toledo, times of convivencia, Spain, Sicily
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| This book, containing the story of Toledo, Spain, provided the name for this vortex.
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| The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, by María Rosa Menocal — recommended by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, of the Minaret of Freedom
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| Strangers Nowhere in the World, by Margaret C. Jacob
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| Cosmopolitanism, by Kwame Anthony Appiah
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| A wonderful description of the author's cosmopolitan birthplace, Kumsai, in Ghana's Asante region, in the 1950s, pg. xix
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| Richard Francis Burton, born 1821, a study in cosmopolitanism, pg. 1
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| Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot, 1876 - Project Gutenberg: download the book
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| Leo Africanus, by Amin Maalouf — a story of a cosmopolitan north African
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| The Walking Drum, Louis L'Amour — Cordoba, Spain, during the time of the Umayyads
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| Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts, Gary Paul Nabhan
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| "If, after reading this book, you occasionally see plants, irrigation canals, or Arabian horses differently, hear echoes of Arabic chants in music from the desert borderlands, or recognize the taste of certain Middle Eastern spices in your southwestern cuisine, I will be gratified that your own synaesthetic shift has begun. I will feel that my mission has been accomplished when and if Arabians and Americans fully appreciate their gifts to one another, as if they were brought together by a magi from a distant land." —Gary Paul Nabhan
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| Arab/American
Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts
Gary Paul Nabhan
160 pp. / 6.0 x 9.0 / 2008
Cloth (978-0-8165-2658-1) [s]
Paper (978-0-8165-2659-8)
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| Islam and the Discovery of Freedom, Rose Wilder Lane, edited by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad
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