LIGHTING
-BRASS CANDLESTICK, often with inlaid silver calligraphic verses, zodiac, and arabesque all-over design, which cast an eerie glow when illuminated by a flickering flame in a midnight majlis
-13th-14th Century GLASS MOSQUE LAMP, MAMLUK era from Syria, WITH ENAMEL INSCRIPTION- USUALLY Sura 24,Verse 35- “HE IS THE LIGHT OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH”…COPIED frequently and with perfection IN 19TH Century FRANCE when orientalism was in fashion
-CERAMIC OIL LAMP, ALGERIAN BERBER TRIBAL areas inland and upmountain from where coastal Roman era olive presses once provided edible and fuel oils to both sides of the Mediterranean
-MANAR, a MODEL OF ALEXANDRIA Pharos, or LIGHTHOUSE, ALSO a COMMON NAME FOR GIRLS, NEWSPAPERS, AND SCHOOLS
-ALLAH in NEON LIGHT, FOR MOSQUES, especially in villages where electricity is limited, this what makes for their otherworldly green glow and the strange all night electrical buzz of transformers being overtaxed in the name of religion
