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Spirit and life 13 Jul—31 Aug 2007
An exhibition of Islamic art from the collection of the Aga Khan gives London a taste of what was missed after plans to build a museum in the capital were rebuffed five years ago. The collection will be part of a permanent exhibit in a museum within a cultural and spiritual complex currently under construction in east Toronto and expected to be completed by 2010. The exhibition, which opened in Parma, Italy earlier this year, is the first time that most of the artefacts have been shown in public and reveals a collection that confirms the Aga Khan as one of the major players on the Islamic art market in recent years. In addition to a splendid collection of Persian, Arabic, Indian and Turkish miniatures and manuscripts bought from the Aga Khan’s uncle Prince Sadruddin, a passionate collector from the 1950s until his death in 2003, the majority of objects were acquired on the commercial market over the past 10 years.
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