Category: Islamic Art
Arts of the East: Highlights of Islamic Art from the Bruschettini Collection From the stellar…
This is an animation of a “Materia Medica” illumination, illustrating the preparation of an Elixir…
The University of Alberta in partnership with the Aga Khan Museum and the Aga Khan…
This installation was done in preparation for the Museum’s newest special exhibition, “Arts of the…
The term ‘rock crystal’ is derived from the Greek word for ice, krystallos, because the Greeks…
The most extensive and in depth details of the event of Ghadir Khum ever recorded.…
The Blue Qur’an is considered one of the most exquisite creations of mediaeval Islam, and…
The great respect for writing the revealed Word of God became a major form of…
The Shahnama (The Book of King), composed by the Persian poet Firdawsi (940-1020) around the year…
Source: OZY – By Sean Braswell “This being human is a guest house,” Rumi’s beloved…
“Our hope is that the Aga Khan Museum will also be a centre of learning,…
Fearful that Persia’s history would be forgotten, Abu’l-Qasim Firdawsi (940-1020) composed the Shahnama (Book of Kings), comprising more than 60,000 rhyming couplets
In 1598, Shah Abbas moved the Persian capital to Isfahan. Here, he commissioned a remarkable sequence of ambitious and beautiful religious and civic buildings.
Dallas Museum of Art Mounts a New Installation of One of the World’s Leading Islamic Art Collections
Installation Comprises More than 150 Works of Art in New Dedicated Gallery
Andrew Kosorok writes on Sufi Comics and Rumi.
Born in 1207, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi lived in Persia and Afghanistan, then settled in Turkey. Before his passing in 1273, Rumi had written 65,000 lines of poetry – a legacy which influences and inspires people around the world 8 centuries later.
Described in the sixteenth century as a masterpiece and acknowledged to this day as one of the most important works of Iranian painting
The exhibition marks the fourth year of partnership between Art Dubai, The Aga Khan Museum, the Consulate General of Canada in Dubai and the Ismaili Centre Dubai.
A set of four volumes of studies by Oleg Grabar
“The beauty of writing is the tongue of the hand and the elegance of thought.” –Ali ibn Abi Talib
My mother used to say “History is rarely made without uppity women”, and I think…
“I gaze upon forms with my optic eye, Because the traces of spiritual meaning are…
Toronto, Canada (CNN) One piece shows a woman wearing a loosely tied hijab, her peroxide-blonde…
Prestige items, Art Deco, and the Aga Khan – what could they possibly have in…
Friday, March 10, 8 pm Saturday, March 11, 3 pm and 8 pm Sunday, March…
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