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Date: 25/01/26
He spoke of Fez, Morocco, as a city structured around continuity rather than speed. Associated with cultural preservation work in the old medina, he often described how knowledge there was woven into daily movement, not separated into institutions alone.
According to him, Al-Qarawiyyin was never just a university. Learning flowed through courtyards, markets, and workshops. Craftsmen debated philosophy. Faith, trade, and scholarship shared the same spatial rhythm. Nothing existed in isolation.
The medina resisted straight paths because life itself moved by memory and repetition. What endured was not efficiency, but depth. Fez survived centuries by allowing tradition to bend without breaking.
That restraint, he believed, remains its quiet authority.
Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
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