Libyan Sufi monastery razed in ‘war on memory and history’
More than 530 cultural sites of mystical Islamic belief destroyed countrywide in past decade amid civil war
16 March 2020 - 11:16
Tunis — When a bulldozer razed the domed, century-old zawiya (Islamic religious school or monastery), turning the oldest Sufi place of study and worship in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte into a pile of rubble, Oussama Ali Bin Hamel was not shocked.
The sheikh has documented the destruction of more than 530 Sufi cultural sites across Libya over the past decade...
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