The Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

The Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo has gathered the most valuable and complete collections of Islamic art. Its building was built in the revived in the XIX century Mamluk architectural style. Ornaments of dark and light brown stripes decorate its facade and make it easy to notice.
The basis of the collection in the Museum of Islamic Art comes from finds in mosques and palaces in Cairo, skillfully collected selected in the second half of the XIX century. They were originally housed in the Al-Ahzim Mosque until the Museum of Islamic Art opened in 1902. Precisely made tombstones, various wood carvings, inlays of ivory, mother-of-pearl, etc. are exhibited. The variety of wrought copper, wrought vessels of silver and gold, arouse the admiration of the spectators.
Due to the fact that the interpretation of the Qur'an forbids the painting of human images, artists place more emphasis on depicting floral, geometric and epigraphic motifs. Panels and doors, mosque lamps and marble fountains from the old Islamic city can be seen in the Cairo Museum of Islamic Art.
Going back to the way of collecting a rich collection, it should be noted that Cairo owns these exhibits collected from many places due to the fact that it was one of the richest cities in the world. It is because of this position that the Anatolian bricks and tiles, Persian carpets and manuscripts, Moorish glazed plates and others can be seen on the world map in the Museum of Islamic Art. The connection between the Museum of Islamic Art and Islamic Cairo is interesting. If a person arouses curiosity, provoked by what he sees in the museum, he can very easily trace his path and learn his history by visiting Islamic Cairo.