My 700th post is another historically themed Christmas Carol. This painting is of the Islamic polymath, Ibn Abbad, who wrote many works of literature during the Golden Age of Islam, when the city of Baghdad had become one of the world’s top epicenters for intellectual life, trade, and cultural flourishing.
“I’m dreaming of a lost city . . . .”.
(To “White Christmas”)
I’m dreaming of a lost city/.
Baghdad, millennium ago.
Where scholars debated/.
And merchants traded/.
Abbasids running the whole show.
Mosques, Madrasas a’glitter/.
Also observatories/.
Algebra invented/.
Optic presented/.
Writing of fabled poetry.
I’m dreaming of this lost city/.
Whene’er I look up in the sky/.
Rigel and Deneb/.
Shine over my head/.
An era of curiosity.
