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Beauty and Belief offers access to Islamic culture, providing ‘a view from within’ by project director, Tunisian born Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir. As an introduction to the arts of Islamic culture, this exhibition aims to bridge differences and inspire insight through beauty.
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Beauty and Belief seeks to build bridges of understanding between Western and Islamic cultures. Find out more about this stunning exhibition here.
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The exhibition features over 250 objects from 50 lenders in the United States and nine other countries in Europe and the Middle East. This will be the first time some of the art is featured in the United States and the first time all of the artwork meets together in one place.
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Sabiha Al Khemir

Mark A. Magleby

Kathryn Haigh

Stephen Jones

Campbell Gray

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Bowl with Animals Fritware, underglaze painted Iran (Kashan), 13th century H. 10.8 cm Diam. 25.4 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Emma Harter Sweetser Fund 52.11	Water Pipe Bowl Enameled and gilded glass India, 18th century H. 14.4 cm Diam. 15 cm The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait LNS 10 G

Rosewater Sprinkler Colored glass, mold blown and free blown, and tooled Iran, 18th-19th century, Qajar H. 33 cm W. 10.2 cm Courtesy of Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Honolulu, Hawaii 47.9	Hippogriff Cast bronze with engraved decoration Probably Spain, 11th-12th century H. 107 cm W. 43 cm L. 87 cm Inscription: page 251 Museo dell’ Opera del Duomo, Pisa (Copy in exhibition) Photo © Santiago Saavedra

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Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges with the Arts of Islamic Culture is supported by a major grant from The Institute of Museum
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Additional foundations and private donors who have generously contributed to Beauty and Belief include: Jack and Mary Lois
Wheatley and the Wheatley family, King and Diane Husein, Don Bailey and Leslie Stanford, the R. Harold Burton Foundation, the
George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, Stephen A. and Martha Alice Sears West, the Laycock Center for Creative
Collaboration in the Arts, the College of Fine Arts and Communications at Brigham Young University, the Semnani Family Foundation,
the Lawrence T. and Janet T. Dee Foundation, the Utah Office of Museum Services, Dr. Omar M. and Dr. Nancy S. Kader, and
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