Arts of the Islamic world

Society Religion & Philosophy
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The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, based at the Smithsonian Institution, has started many interesting (online) exhibitions. One of them is titled, “Arts of the Islamic world”. (Once you get here, click on the link - to the right - that states “Online Exhibition
Gallery Guide - Arts of the Islamic World”).

They’ve divided it up into four sections: Calligraphy, Abstract design, Arts of the book, and Art of the object. It’s extremely interesting stuff, with quite a bit of factual information to go along with it.

The other online exhibitions are accessible here. One doesn’t have to be exclusively interested in the Islamic exhibition itself; although i found this one to be one of the most interesting, there are diverse types of exhibitions from different cultures that you can view online.

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the calligraphy section is really impressive… :k:

we have Bait-ul-Quran here in Bahrain, which I advise all visitors to see…
a rich collection of Islamic arts, especialy Quran manuscripts…

although in this article, the use of the words Korans and a Koran shud be more appropriately changed to manuscripts of the Koran or a manuscript of the Koran…
personal opinion :slight_smile:

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Nice link Nadia!

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Thanks :flower1:

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MashaAllah:)

I remember visiting the Islamic Art exhibits they had up three years ago it was really amazing, lots of calligraphy, ceramics,metalwork, carpets, carvings, it was really inspiring:-)

Thanks for refreshing those memories

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thnx for sharing:)