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Saturday December 5 2009

Verses about a Father Sending his Son on the Sufi Path, 16th century Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum. More.

11:00 am - 11:30 am

Small Treasures: Discovering Islamic Art in the Harvard Art Museum

Gallery Talk

Arthur M. Sackler Museum @ 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

Maliha Noorani, Norma Jean Calderwood Curatorial Fellow, Department of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum

This talk will consider the history and background of selected objects from the Islamic collection, including works on display in a temporary installation on the sacred world of Sufism. Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs, and Sufis is on view August 6, 2009–January 3, 2010 at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

Free admission (admission is free for everyone on Saturdays before noon).
Gallery talks are informal and include discussion.

For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu.

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