Sufi Center in Hama, Syria, c. 1900 (Photo of the Day)

Juan Cole 12/21/2013

(From Gertrude Bell, Syria: The Desert and the Sown, 1908)

Hama is a small, mainly Sunni Arab city in the center-west of Syria famed for its water wheels. For Syrian Sufi orders see this link

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Follow him at @jricole