In the heart of Cairo Museum of Islamic Art .. 100,000 artifacts telling the history of Muslims

Dear reader .. You are now on a date with a visit to one of the most important museums of Islamic art in Egypt and the year, that museum that includes among its corridors more than a hundred thousand various artifacts, from different countries, including India, Iran, China, Andalusia, the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa All of them enjoy artistic richness and precision manufacturing. Here, Islamic arts have been collected over the ages,

Here is the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, which has become worthy of being a beacon for Islamic arts in Egypt and the world.

Museum holdings

Porcelain

The most prominent collection of the museum is the porcelain, which is a group of dishes, tiles and daily necessities, including, for example, a pot of porcelain known as Faiyum ceramics, which is known for its variety of colors between green, blue, yellow and brown, and this piece dates back to the Fatimid era, and the pot is decorated with floral motifs And geometric and clerical.

Among the most important artifacts in the museum is the broken piece of a vase made of porcelain on which the image of the Virgin Mary and Christ is depicted. This piece dates back to the Ayyubid era, and was decorated with Christian drawings in an Islamic era, while the rest of the broken artifact is preserved in a museum of Athens, and a decree Apostles of Jesus, peace be upon him.
And ivory from the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo has a share, and among them, for example, the makhala made of ivory inlaid with seashell, and belongs to the Mamluk era in Egypt, and from the same era the museum houses a white marble minister decorated with a prominent Kufic script, and at the bottom there is a decree of four colored fish. Al-Zeer was transferred from the Tatar Hijaz school to the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo
Metal holdings:

The coins in the Museum of Islamic Art have a share, and one of the most prominent ones

A pitcher attributed to Marawan bin Muhammad, one of the most famous pieces of art in the world, as it was made of cast bronze, and it was found in Abu Sir, and the most important characteristic of this ewer is its tap, which takes the form of a rooster shouting, and the jug is decorated with decorations of stars and crescents And the sun.

Ornaments:

Each era has an ornament that distinguishes it from other eras, the Museum of Islamic Art carries a large collection of jewelry, for different Islamic eras, among the most prominent of these jewelry, an anklet dating back to the family of Muhammad Ali, made by the method of intertwining and intertwining wires, which is called "Al-Shaftachi"

The Museum of Islamic Art is a destination for researchers in Islamic history and civilization, and those interested in Islamic arts throughout the ages. It has been located in Bab al-Khalq Square in the heart of Cairo since it was established in 1903.

It is open to visitors from nine in the morning until five in the evening.

As for the museum entrance tickets, they are symbolic, for the Egyptian citizen is 10 pounds, while the Egyptian student, his entrance fee to the museum is 5 pounds, the foreign tourist is 50 pounds, the foreign student is 25 pounds.

And after you got acquainted with information about the Museum of Islamic Art, and provided pictures of the rare collections it holds, do you not plan to visit it

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