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Updated: April 30, 2025
And then I looked across the court to the arcade that lay beyond, and I saw the exquisite "love-color" of the marvellous tiles that gives this mosque its name. The huge pillars of this arcade are striped and ugly, but between them shone, with an ineffable lustre, a wall of purple and blue, of purple and blue so strong and yet so delicate that it held the eyes and drew the body forward.
Here and there traces of painting, dull-red, pale, ethereal blue the "love-color" of Egypt, as the Egyptians often call it still adhered to the stone. This hall, dignified, grand, but happy, was open on all sides to the sun and air. From it I could see tamarisk- and acacia-trees, and far-off shadowy mountains beyond the eastern verge of the Nile.
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