Islamic Art
About 15,000 works from across the Islamic world — carpets, ceramics, metalwork, manuscripts, and architectural elements dating from the 7th century to today.
Where the word itself became the image.
cross a world stretching from Spain to South Asia, Islamic artists raised design to a high spiritual art — the endless geometry, the blossoming arabesque, and above all calligraphy, in which the written word carries a beauty no figure could.
Lose yourself in a knotted carpet's logic, the luster of a glazed bowl, and the painted pages of Firdausi's Book of Kings. Fifteen hundred years and three continents, unified less by a single style than by a shared genius for pattern.