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Aga Khan's wonders on show in Germany
Published in The Egyptian Gazette on 17 - 03 - 2010

BERLIN ��" More than 200 items from the Aga Khan's collection of over 1,000 years of Islamic art, one of the world's largest and most valuable, went on show in Germany yesterday for the first time.
The paintings, drawings, ceramics and wood carvings give a view of the variety and richness of an Islamic culture which, from the eighth to the 18th centuries, stretched from the Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula to China.
The works on display in Berlin's Martin- Gropius-Bau until June 6 are from the collection of Karim Aga Khan IV, the spiritual head of the Ismaili Muslims who is regarded as a direct descendent of the Prophet Mohamed. The entire collection is due to be housed from 2013 onwards in the new Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada, in a new building designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki.
Items from the Aga Khan Museum's collection have been shown in London, Paris, Lisbon and Madrid, but the Berlin show will be the largest exhibition to date, organisers said.
Highlights in Berlin include pages from the Persian heroic epic "Shahnama" ("Book of Kings") by the poet Firdawsi, a Mongolian robe of silk damask from the 13th century and a double page of the "Blue Koran" from the ninth century.
Also on show is the oldest known Arabic manuscript of the "Canon of Medicine" by philosopher and physician Ibn Sina, which served as a standard work and textbook for physicians in Europe for over 500 years.
One section in the exhibition, "The Word of God", includes Qur'an manuscripts and objects dealing with the pilgrimage to Mecca or Islamic mysticism.
"The Route of the Travellers", meanwhile, takes the visitor on a journey through the Islamic world, from Al-Andalus.


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