#damask rose

[koenji]

Children play with Damask roses during harvest, 2007, Province of Nangahar, Afghanistan. Photographed by Ursula Meissner. x

[ends-2-beginnings]

Gina Fuchs

Damask rose

[found-in-nomadland]

Damask roses in Ranger, Texas. Rich color against bright sky, carrying that slightly moody edge even in full sun.

📍Ranger, Texas

[sweet-harmony]

“Each color lives by its mysterious life.” ~Wassily Kandinsky

@sweet-harmony

[forgotwhattowrite]

you will bloom even over sadness

that’s my flower perk

[yourfavesasflowers]

ooh sabretooth? x men evolution??

Damask Rose

meaning: Brilliant complexion.

[247reader]

Day 22: Mas'uda al-Wizkitiya!

Mas'uda al-Wizkitiya, later known as Lala ‘Auda among other laudatory titles, was born into Berber nobility in 16th century Morocco, the daughter of a sheik. She married even higher - becoming one of the wives of Mohammad al-Shaykh, a skilled military leader and eventual Sultan, who drove both the Portuguese and the Ottomans out of Morocco.

This came to an end when Sultan Mohammed was assassinated, and his sons battled one another for the vacant throne. Mas’uda’s son, Ahmad al-Mansur, was forced to flee into exile, but after his brother’s death in battle, he returned. Mas’uda was now the mother of the Sultan - a man who as “Ahmad the Golden” would go down in history as one of Morocco’s greatest rulers - but this is not what she would be best remembered for.

Mas’uda was determined to use her exalted position to aid the less fortunate. She founded schools and mosques, several of the latter of which are still in use today, but this was common enough for someone in her position. Mas’uda went further, travelling around Morocco and personally dispensing charity - from funding large projects like bridge construction, to providing dowries so that impoverished couples could wed.

Her people called her the Lady who Returns, the Free Lady, the Phoenix of the Sahara. She was beloved - and, after her death, declared a Waliya, “Friend of God,” the Muslim equivalent of sainthood.

[shy-girl04]

Photographer - shy-girl04 : Damask Rose, 2012