Article Author: Cultural events that will light up 2018
Media Source: The Edge Markets (Malaysia)
Date: 8 January 2018
The World of the Fatimids’ exhibition will start on 10 March until 2 July at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. The Fatimid dynasty’s staggeringly sophisticated caliphate reached its peak in the 10th and 11th centuries. Stretched along North Africa and the Middle East, its capital in what’s now Cairo, Egypt, fostered a boom in
The World of the Fatimids’ exhibition will start on 10 March until 2 July at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. The Fatimid dynasty’s staggeringly sophisticated caliphate reached its peak in the 10th and 11th centuries. Stretched along North Africa and the Middle East, its capital in what’s now Cairo, Egypt, fostered a boom in arts and sciences, eventually surpassing virtually any other contemporaneous civilisation. The Aga Khan Museum’s show will include an array of delicate, intricate objects that include ceramic lustreware, rock crystal and ivory.