Saudi donates $3.7 million to Islamic art in Britain
Faris Jawad
4/20/2005 5:00:00 PM GMT
Source: Khaleej Times
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia donated $3.7 million on Tuesday to a leading
British museum for the creation of a new Saudi and Islamic gallery.
The money, handed over by Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Saudi
Arabia's second Deputy Premier and Minister of Defence and Aviation, will
also pay for a scholarship programme for Saudi students at Oxford
University.
The Islamic gallery will be attached to Oxford University?s Ashmolean
Museum, the oldest public collection in Britain.
Speaking in London, Prince Sultan said he hoped the Saudi/Islamic gallery
would promote the "understanding and appreciation of Islamic art within the
UK."
The Ashmolean was founded in 1683 and houses a significant collection of art
and archaeology from eastern and western civilisations.
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pmr
like reading the koran.
AnonMoos
showing the faces of women will be in the collection!
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AnonMoos
> Islamic art - devoid of genuine human emotions
Dude, I'm sorry, but that's just pathetic. For example, Medieval
Persian miniatures (which may not be "Islamic art" in the absolutely
strictest sense, according to some rigorists, but which were made by
Muslims for Muslims within an Islamic civilization) probably make your
best artistic efforts look like badly done crayon-drawings!
Cuthbert Thistlethwaite
AnonMoos wrote:
. . .
> . . . For example, Medieval
> Persian miniatures (which may not be "Islamic art" in the absolutely
> strictest sense, according to some rigorists, but which were made by
> Muslims for Muslims within an Islamic civilization) . . .
I know nothing about this. A link or two would be appreciated, but only
if it's easy. In any event, TIA.
. . .
AnonMoos
>AnonMoos wrote:
>> For example, Medieval Persian miniatures (which may not be "Islamic
>> art" in the absolutely strictest sense, according to some
>> rigorists, but which were made by Muslims for Muslims within an
>> Islamic civilization) probably make your best artistic efforts look
> I know nothing about this. A link or two would be appreciated, but only
> if it's easy. In any event, TIA.
I didn't learn about it from the Internet, but by going to the Metropolitan
Museum in the early 70's. Here's the exhibition catologue:
Welch, Stuart Cary, A King's Book of Kings. The Shah-Nameh of Shah Tahmasp.
Greenwich New York Graphic Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art.. 1972.
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Cuthbert Thistlethwaite
AnonMoos wrote:
. . .
> I didn't learn about it from the Internet, but by going to the Metropolitan
> Museum in the early 70's. Here's the exhibition catologue:
> Welch, Stuart Cary, A King's Book of Kings. The Shah-Nameh of Shah Tahmasp.
> Greenwich New York Graphic Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art.. 1972.
. . .
Thanks.
I went to the King Tut in Chicago in '76. Wonderful little bench with
gold dog-heads on the sides, certainly useful benches for rich people,
though apparently somewhat smaller, somewhat shorter, rich people, than
rich people of today, and all that: and all of which preceded islam, and
had nothing to do with islam.
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/197703/king.tut.tours.america.htm