Journal of Poetry, Science, and Statecraft Fall 2001 $5.00 Mohammed Sijelmassi G. Dagli Orti The Poetry of the Koran Above: Exteriors: Dome of the Rock, n the Ninth and Tenth centuries, God had given the gift of speech to Jerusalem (l.), INorthern Europe gazed at the marvel of the first man, Adam. It was not Madrasa al-Attarin, Al-Andalus in awe, not without a tinge of language in general, but the Arabic Fez, Morocco, 14th suspicion, wondering what the secret language, based on that spoken by the century (r.). behind the brilliance of Arab Spain could Quayrash clan in Arabia, but elevated be. The truth is, that Islamic Spain was a through the poetry of the Koran to a humanist culture which had been founded literary tongue. It was what Dante Left: Interior, on a crucial scientific discovery: the Arabic would later call an “illustrious Madrasa-mosque of language. vernacular,” a language spoken by the Sultan Hasan, Cairo, Mohammed, whom Muslims consider people, but forged through the 1356-1363. the last prophet in a series beginning with transmission of universal ideas, in this Abraham, was an illiterate, who received case divine revelation, into a vehicle Gérard Degeorge the revelation, contained in the holy capable of transmitting the most book of the Koran, with the injunction by profound ideas regarding man and the *** God: “Read! Recite!” The miracle which universe. The great architectural achievements gave birth to the new religion was therefore Since it is incumbent on Muslims to read of the Islamic Renaissance are adorned, the miracle of language, whose appearance and recite the Koran in Arabic in daily both inside and out, with the poetry of the to Mohammed echoed the act by which prayers, believers who were won over to the Koran and other works. Here, visual faith had to learn to beauty implies the musicality of language. speak, read, and write A few examples are shown. the language of the Koran. Its expansion [SEE ‘Andalusia, Gateway to the was tantamount to a Golden Renaissance’] literacy campaign, as Islam spread like wildfire through non- Arab populations, to the East through Persia and India up to China and southeast Asia, as well as westward across North Africa and into Spain. Right: Wazir Khan mosque, Lahore, Pakistan, 1643. Calligraphic inscription in cursive style. Left: Interior of the Great Mosque, Córdoba, Spain, restored by al- Hakam II, c. 960. Epigraphic bands in Gérard Degeorge Kufic style frame the mihrab. Henri Stierlin, Geneva “It is through beauty that one proceeds to freedom.” —Friedrich Schiller Vol. X, No. 3 Fall 2001 DIALOGUE Of EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CIVILIZATIONS William F. Wertz, Jr. A Symposium EDITOR Kenneth Kronberg Invitation To Participate Contributions to the Dialogue ART DIRECTOR Alan Yue In an International Recent statements by Correspondence Mohammad Hosni Mubarak, EDITORIAL ASSISTANT For a ‘Dialogue of Cultures’ President of Egypt Denise Henderson Helga Zepp LaRouche Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, BOOKS President of Iran Katherine Notley 4 Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Fidelio (ISSN 1059-9126) is Lyndon LaRouche in Rome: 36 published by the Schiller Toward a Dialogue of Institute, Inc., P.O. Box 20244, Washington, D.C. 20041-0244. 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(Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris). 80 The Soldier and the State 81 How To Defeat Global Strategic Irregular Warfare; FID 01-003 To Stop Terrorism, Shut Down ‘Dope, Inc.’ The Continuing American Revolution— Versus Brzezinski and September 11 s Lyndon LaRouche stresses in his remarks to by Lyndon LaRouche: the Italian Institute for Asia in Rome, 1. The world has entered the crucial, terminal phase Apublished in this issue, contrary to the fairy- of disintegration of the present international tale proferred by the Administration and retailed by monetary-financial system, characterized by an the mass media, Osama bin Laden could not have been accelerating physical-economic deflation in the culprit responsible for the events of September 11. production, and a futile attempt to delay the Rather, such a complicated operation could only have collapse of the monetary-financial system, through been carried out by rogue elements within the U.S. accelerating growth of an already hyperinflationary military-intelligence command, for the purpose of financial bubble. The end of this process has been effecting a coup d’état against the Bush Administration. reached, as evidenced not only by Argentina, but by There could have been foreign accomplices, but no Japan—and when Japan goes, by the U.S. itself. Arab government, no Arab terrorist organization, could have done it. 2. As long as governments cling to defending the false The purpose of the attack axiomatic policy-shaping was to drive the United States EDITORIAL guidelines of the post-1971 into global, “Clash of Civili- I.M.F. system, each will be zations” warfare—very likely, toppled by succeeding by pushing the U.S. to support an Israeli launching of replacements, until either general war against the Arab world—for the those nations begin to disintegrate, or governments geopolitical purpose of destroying the current efforts for emerge which reject that I.M.F. system altogether, Eurasian cooperation and economic development. and proceed as LaRouche has instructed: Put the There are three locations of this geopolitical policy: existing system through bankruptcy reorganization, the Blair government of Britain; the military command create Hamiltonian national-banking systems of Israel; and the financier circles in the U.S., typified under the authority of the sovereign nation-state, by the faction identified with Henry Kissinger, and establish a New Bretton Woods system of Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Samuel P. Huntington. This sovereign nation-states committed to the General does not necessarily mean that these individuals were Welfare of each and all. directly involved in September 11. But, the attack was 3. This economic collapse is accompanied by the threat aimed at launching their “Clash of Civilizations,” as of a global “Clash of Civilizations,” of devastating the pretext for the new Anglo-American imperium worldwide religious warfare, reenacting the horror advocated by their Harvard mentor, William Yandell of Europe’s 1618-1648 warfare, but on a global scale. Elliott—i.e., the “Open Conspiracy” of H.G. Wells. The only alternative to this “Clash of Civilizations,” Fortunately, thus far the attempted coup has not is a dialogue of civilizations, and a commitment to succeeded. Unfortunately, it has also not yet been global economic development centered on defeated. LaRouche’s Eurasian Land-Bridge conception. As this issue of Fidelio goes to press, it is useful 4. It is not likely that the needed global economic and to review the global strategic situation as elaborated related reforms could be made in a timely fashion, unless the U.S.A., the world’s most powerful nation, were to assume the role implicit in what Visit the new Schiller Institute website at Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton defined as www.schillerinstitute.org the American System of political-economy, and unless it carried out that role in a manner consistent 2 On the Thirty Years’ War ll the events of this period, if they did not originate Ain, soon became mixed up with, the question of religion, and no state was either too great or too little, to feel, directly or indirectly, more or less of its influence. Against the reformed doctrine and its adherents the house of Austria directed, almost exclusively, the whole of its immense political power. In France, the with the qualities of leadership of Benjamin Reformation had enkindled a civil war which, under Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin four stormy reigns, shook the kingdom to its founda- Roosevelt. Thus, although international conditions tions, brought foreign armies into the heart of the have undermined the institutions of U.S. domestic country, and for a half a century rendered it the scene and foreign policies of practice, the affirmation of of the most mournful disorders. It was the Reforma- the original American Revolution, as against tion too, that rendered the Spanish yoke intolerable to American Toryism’s corruption of that original the Flemings, and awakened in them both the desire intention, gives the task before the U.S.