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How did Islamic cultures and Islamic art arise? Where do their roots lie? Like the Islamic religion itself, Islamic art also built on its predecessors in the Middle East. Focussing on Ctesiphon, a vast landscape of ruins south of Baghdad, this exhibition is devoted to the Persian legacy inherited by Islam.
Video: Lengyel Toulouse, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus /Museum für Islamische Kunst
Exhibition
The Heritage of the Old Kings. Ctesiphon and the Persian Sources of Islamic Art
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