28/07/2024
The “21 Stairs” located Balamand University in Lebanon
The stairs are next to the university’s library, and the books are in near chronological order as so:
1. The Epic of Gilgamesh
2. The Republic of Plato
3. Diwān Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanbbī
4. Risālat al-ghufrān / Abī al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī
5. The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
6. Muqaddimah-i Ibn Khaldūn
7. The Prince and the Discourses (Niccolò Machiavelli)
8. Discourse on Method (René Descartes)
9. The Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant)
10. FAUST (Goethe)
11. The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
12. The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
13. Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
14. The Meaning of Relativity (Albert Einstein)
15. The Prophet (Khalil Gebran)
16. al-Ayyām / Ṭāhā Ḥusayn
17. A Study of History (Arnold Toynbee)
18. Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
19. A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking) 20. Les Désorientés (Amin Maalouf )
21. The Road Ahead (Bill Gates)
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