The Shahnama (The Book of King), composed by the Persian poet Firdawsi (940-1020) around the year…
Category: Islamic Art
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…
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