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Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Published in conjunction with the reopening of the Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia on November 1, 2011.

Contents

Building a collection of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum, 1870-2011 / Priscilla P. Soucek
A century of installations : a photo essay / Rebecca Meriwether Lindsay
The new Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia / Navina Najat Haidar
Art of the early caliphates (7th to 10th centuries) / Maryam D. Ekhtiar
Art of Spain, North Africa, and the Western Mediterranean / Olga Bush
Art of the Eastern Islamic lands (9th to 14th centuries) / Priscilla P. Soucek
Art of Egypt and Syria (10th to 16th centuries) / Stefano Carboni
Art of Iran and Central Asia (15th to 19th centuries) / Sheila R. Canby
Art of the Ottoman Court / Walter B. Denny
Art of South Asia (14th to 19th centuries) / Navina Najat Haidar.

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