This is the "Staircase to Knowledge" at the University of Balamand in Lebanon, leading up to the library building. 1/
The books are in rough chronological order, consisting of 21 books, from bottom to top:
The Epic of Gilgamesh;
The Republic of Plato;
Diwān Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanbbī;
Risālat al-ghufrān / Abī al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī;
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri);
Muqaddimah-i Ibn Khaldūn; 2/
The Epic of Gilgamesh;
The Republic of Plato;
Diwān Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanbbī;
Risālat al-ghufrān / Abī al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī;
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri);
Muqaddimah-i Ibn Khaldūn; 2/
The Prince and the Discourses (Niccolò Machiavelli);
Discourse on Method (René Descartes);
The Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant);
FAUST (Goethe);
The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin);
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky);
Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche); 3/
Discourse on Method (René Descartes);
The Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant);
FAUST (Goethe);
The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin);
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky);
Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche); 3/
The Meaning of Relativity (Albert Einstein);
The Prophet (Khalil Gebran);
al-Ayyām / Ṭāhā Ḥusayn;
A Study of History (Arnold Toynbee);
Cosmos (Carl Sagan);
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking);
Les Désorientés (Amin Maalouf );
The Road Ahead (Bill Gates). 4/
The Prophet (Khalil Gebran);
al-Ayyām / Ṭāhā Ḥusayn;
A Study of History (Arnold Toynbee);
Cosmos (Carl Sagan);
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking);
Les Désorientés (Amin Maalouf );
The Road Ahead (Bill Gates). 4/
The University of Balamand is a highly rated private, secular, Lebanese university. It welcomes faculty & students from all faiths & ethnic origins. The university is located in the northern district of El-Koura, and was founded by Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch in 1988. 5/
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