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  2. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art - Wikipedia

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    Describing the arms and armour catalogue, James W. Allan, Professor of Eastern Art at the University of Oxford, wrote "The range of pieces [...] is quite extraordinary: a 1.8 m long seventeenth-century Indian cannon, Turkish and Persian daggers with astonishingly beautiful enamelled handles and scabbards, gold fittings for a 10th-century ...

  3. Turban helmet - Wikipedia

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    Late 15th-century turban helmet in the style of Turkish armour. The turban helmet or Tolga [1] in Turkish, is a historical variety of combat helmet with a bulbous shape and fluting that imitates the folds of a turban. Turban helmets originated in Ottoman Turkey, primarily used by warriors and some non-Turkish auxiliaries.

  4. Khalili Collections - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] [9] The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art includes 26,000 objects documenting arts from Islamic lands over a period of almost 1400 years. It was described in 1998 as "one of the largest and most representative collections of Quranic manuscripts in the world" [ 10 ] and is the largest private collection.

  5. Medicine in the medieval Islamic world - Wikipedia

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    Responding to circumstances of time and place/location, Islamic physicians and scholars created an extensive and complex medical literature exploring, analyzing, and synthesizing the theory and practice of medicine [citation needed] Islamic medicine was initially built on tradition, chiefly the theoretical and practical knowledge developed in ...

  6. Tareq Rajab Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Museum is housed at two separate locations in Jabriya, Kuwait: the Tareq Rajab Museum, which was founded in 1980, and the Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy in 2007. The Tareq Rajab Museum includes collections of manuscripts and miniatures, ceramics, metalwork, glass, arms and armour as well as textiles, costumes and jewellery. The ...

  7. David Nicolle - Wikipedia

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    He lectured in World and Islamic art and architecture at Yarmouk University, Jordan. He was also on the editorial board of the Medieval History Magazine . Nicolle married an American, Colette Giroux in 1976; they have a son Frederick Joseph ("Fred", born 1982) and a daughter Dr. Antoinette Laura ("Nette", born 1984).

  8. Arab sword - Wikipedia

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    In the article "Introduction to the Study of Islamic Arms and Armour", A. Rahman Zaky says the saif is "[a]n Arab sword, [with] a rather broad blade and sometimes with a peculiarly hooked pommel. The size varies greatly. It is found in most countries in which the Arabs have lived, and each has its own variety.

  9. Imperial School of Medicine (Ottoman Empire) - Wikipedia

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    Sultan Mahmud II established the school on 14 March 1827. [3] That year Mahmud II announced that the school would for the time being teach in French. [2] At that time most of the instructors and students at the military medical school were non-Muslims and included Armenians, Arab Christians, Bulgarians, and Greeks. [4]