2 August 2013 - 13:31
Swiss scholar writing books on Islamic arts

Lecturer of the Université Populaire de Lausanne Patrick Ringgenberg is writing three books about Islamic arts including features of Imam Reza's holy shrine in Mashad.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Ringgenberg said he is currently busy writing three books on various Islamic topics. 

As he said, arrays of Islamic arts, the shrine of the 8th Shi'a imam in Mashad and Mashad for travelers are the themes of the books he is currently working on. 

The laureate of the 19th Book of the Year Award of the Islamic Republic of Iran went on to say that his works will be released no sooner than fall. 

Reviewing the architectural features of Imam Reza's holy shrine is the theme of the first book he is working on, he added. 

A collection of travelogues by Europeans visiting Mashad, Khorasan Razavi Province, in the past two centuries is the theme of another book he is currently engaged with. The travelogues beautifully depict the city in the past 100 or 200 years ago. 

The professor of Art’s philosophy and the Université Populaire de Lausanne further added that he is halfway to finish the third book on the features of Islamic art. The book is being written in French. 

Ringgenberg’s L’univers symbolique des arts Islamiques bagged the 2012 World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

He has also written a cultural guidebook on Iran which is believed by many as the best tourism guide ever written about Iran. 

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