If you have ever imagined a fairy-tale castle, all soaring towers and pointed blue-grey spires rising against the sky, there is a good chance the picture in your head owes

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Source: Pixabay The Great Mosque of Kairouan is admired not only for its age but for the profound influence it had on Islamic architecture across the western Muslim world. Its