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It embodied beauty, tolerance and power, according to a recent exhibition – watch the video to find out more. The World of the Fatimids, an exhibition at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada ...
The Fatimids Dynasty built one of the world’s oldest universities, defined luxury fashion for a millennium, compiled one of the greatest libraries, and fostered the development of arts and sciences.
A landmark exhibition exploring the World of the Fatimids opened Saturday at the Aga Khan Museum. Curated by renowned cultural historian Dr. Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani, the exhibition is ...
This caliphate founded Cairo and ruled Egypt for 200 years, then vanished. A new show at the Aga Khan Museum looks to unearth a hidden history.
At its height, the Fatimid Caliphate stretched across the southern Mediterranean, from eastern Morocco to southern Turkey. From their base in Syria in 909, the Fatimids’ Ismaili leaders marched ...
The exhibition, titled The World of the Fatimids, will run from 10 March to 2 July, providing North America with its first display of carefully selected Fatimid artworks, according to the museum.
The first major international show on the Fatimid dynasty of Cairo in two decades, and the first of its kind in North America, has opened at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (AKM). The World of the ...
A first of its kind exhibition has been opened at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada. The exhibition is about the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shia Islamic caliphate descended from Prophet Muhammad's ...
A collection of Fatimid artefacts from Cairo arrived in Toronto on Tuesday for inclusion in a temporary exhibition at the city's Aga Khan Museum. The exhibition, titled The World of the Fatimids ...
CAIRO Egypt -- The Fatimids -- Shiite Muslims who invaded Egypt from Tunisia -- founded what would become the Sunni Muslim world's most prestigious seat of learning. Al-Azhar mosque was completed i… ...
The first major international show on the Fatimid dynasty of Cairo in two decades, and the first of its kind in North America, has opened at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (AKM). The World of the ...