The greater revelation was the rest of the Aga Khan Museum. The subject of the Museum is Muslim- and Muslim-related arts and civilizations. And if the job of a museum is to present with care and passion things and places you don’t otherwise know much about, then the Aga Khan is the best museum in Toronto by a country mile right now. I really don’t know my Abbasids from my Umayyads, but I now know a hell of a lot more about the astonishing range and richness of Islamic arts and cultures from across a huge sweep of the planet. Eye popping stuff in every case and vitrine.
Given how much of our image of Islam is shaped these days by propaganda, the museum is doing good service — something the donor no doubt had in mind
Click here to read: Christopher Moore’s History News: Sunday at the Aga Khan Museum.
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