{"id":593,"date":"2010-02-24T03:57:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T23:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=593"},"modified":"2010-02-24T03:57:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T23:57:36","slug":"fajram-collection-guided-tour-of-islamic-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/fajram-collection-guided-tour-of-islamic-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Fajram Collection: Guided tour of Islamic art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rare Islamic artworks from The Fajram Collection came alive at <a href=\"http:\/\/dubai.travel-culture.com\/\" title=\"Dubai Travel\">Dubai <\/a>International Finance Centre (DIFC) on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>With Dr Ronald Hawker, Associate Professor from the Department of Art and Design, Zayed University conducting a guided tour of the Islamic Art exhibition, the visitors were instantly transported back to the 13th century \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the period most of the fabled collection belonged to.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is a story behind each artwork,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Dr Hawker as he gave a detailed overview of the collection which comprised Quran manuscripts, illustrated books of science, mathematics and poetry; paintings and miniatures, glazed pottery; woodwork; textiles; jewellery; carpets and coins.<\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/theancientart.com\">The Ancient Art<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare Islamic artworks from The Fajram Collection came alive at Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) on Wednesday afternoon. With Dr Ronald Hawker, Associate Professor from the Department of Art and Design, Zayed University conducting a guided tour of the Islamic Art exhibition, the visitors were instantly transported back to the 13th century \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}