Travel Reference
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There is one anchor in this fomenting region that has attracted academics, enthralled
creative minds, enriched Western study of mathematics, medicine and literature for cen-
turies, and that is Islam. TE Lawrence summed up the spiritual core of the Peninsula thus:
'It is the old, old civilisation, which has refined itself clear of household gods and half the
trappings which ours hastens to assume.' It will be interesting to see to what extent that
spiritual core can withstand the conflicting pressures of a global, internet age.
