The Art Gallery of NSW is currently exhibiting a collection of magnificent Islamic art from the Khalili Collection, one of the largest and finest collections of Islamic art in the world.
Dr Nasser David Khalili is an Iranian Jewish scholar who collects art in order to promote understanding and peace between cultures. His collection ranges across the entire span of Islamic history, and includes manuscripts, statues, glassware, furniture, and jewellery, and totals over 20,000 objects. Dr Khalili is also involved with the Maimonides Foundation Trust, which promotes peace and understanding between Jews and Muslims.
Sadly, I won't be able to make it to Sydney in order to view the exhibition; but the Art Gallery has an excellent website - and although the site is incomplete (the online exhibition has yet to be posted), what's already there looks fantastic, and I'll be re-visiting the site to check out the exhibition images once they come online.
The music accompanying the exhibition also sounds wonderful; I'm thinking that when the CD becomes available, a copy might just join my collection of sacred music.
Talk to you soon,
BB.
Quote for the Day: Dispute not, unless in kindly fashion, with the people of the Book, save with such of them as have acted wrongfully toward you; and say to them, "We believe in what has been sent down to us and sent down to you. Our God and your God is one, and to him we are self-surrendered". (Qur'an, Sura 26:45)
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