Yet his Islam is also the source of enduring monuments of thought and piety and art.
The anger and frustration of middle-class Hindus at all this and more greatly contributed to the Hindu nationalist movement, which picked up strength through the 1980s as an upper-caste uprising that identified conservative Islam and the Babri Masjid, one of the enduring monuments of the Moghul conquest of India, as foes.
Given the great success enjoyed by recent movie adaptations of the novels of Jane Austen and Henry James, it is only logical that filmmakers should turn now to the works of Honor de Balzac, whose The Human Comedy is one of the enduring monuments of 19th-century culture.
THE wreckage of America Online's misbegotten takeover of Time Warner for stock now appears the greatest enduring monument to the folly of the Internet boom.
In a statement, Robin Baker, the film institute's head curator, said "The Epic of Everest" portrayed "a key moment in the history of mountaineering and remains an enduring monument to Mallory and Irvine".
Robin Baker, head curator at the BFI National Archive, called the film one of the greatest treasures in the archive: "It represents a key moment in the history of mountaineering and remains an enduring monument to Mallory and Irvine".
Following Pearl's example, and in the spirit of "Noblesse Oblige," her adoring family, the dedicated staff, a grateful alumni and so many loyal friends are all helping to perpetuate Tranquillity Camp as an enduring monument to this great leader.
His films are enduring monuments to the ravaging, nearly soul-destroying stresses of the stifling of emotion, the silencing of desire, the lifelong maintenance of a public front.
As enduring monuments to the past, they symbolise a territory of time; as part of a cultural landscape, they symbolise a territory of space.
