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<p>[QUOTE="Debora, post: 2349360, member: 1476"]From wikipedia.org...</p><ul> <li><font size="3">Since Ottoman times, red carnations and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip" rel="nofollow">tulips</a> are used in the interior wall paintings of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque" rel="nofollow">mosques</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" rel="nofollow">Turkey</a>. It is often said that while tulips represent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Islam" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Islam" rel="nofollow">God</a>, carnations is the symbol for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad" rel="nofollow">Muhammad</a>. However these flower designs are not unique to mosques but also used in many other Ottoman traditional art forms.</font></li> </ul><p><font size="4">Debora</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Debora, post: 2349360, member: 1476"]From wikipedia.org... [LIST] [*][SIZE=3]Since Ottoman times, red carnations and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip']tulips[/URL] are used in the interior wall paintings of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque']mosques[/URL] in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey']Turkey[/URL]. It is often said that while tulips represent [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Islam']God[/URL], carnations is the symbol for [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad']Muhammad[/URL]. However these flower designs are not unique to mosques but also used in many other Ottoman traditional art forms.[/SIZE] [/LIST] [SIZE=4]Debora[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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