Cairo – Museum of Islamic Art
Cairo – Museum of Islamic Art
The facility is located at Bab al-Khalq, and it can be reached from Midan Ataba shari Qalaa towards the Citadel. The main entrance opens from the sharia side of 'Port Said (Bur Sa’id). According to the plan, the visitor should go to room no 1, to see the chronology of monuments there. In room no 2 there is a play from the Umayyad period (661-750). There is also art from the time of the Abbasids and Tulunids (730-905). Room no 3 are mainly wooden cladding and items made of brass, as well as Persian fashion imitations, but expensive Chinese pottery.
Room no 4 (entrance through the door of Qalawuna Hospital) is the art of the Fatimid period (969-1171), which did not comply with the prohibition of depicting people or animals. There are also textiles from this period. In room 4b, the columns from the times of the Mamluks and Ajubid mashabians draw attention (1171-1250). To room no 5 you enter through the door from the Baybars mosque. Exhibits from the Mamluk period have been collected here (1250-1517): a fountain, mosque lamps, tombstone from the al-Hussein mosque, enroll, glass covered with refined calligraphy. In room no 6 (door from the al-Azhar mosque; 1010) you can see the masterpieces of woodcarving. In room no 7 the marauders were set up, and in room no 8 -minbar and ceiling panels. Room no 9 They are mainly wooden boxes, bronze mirrors and lamps and articles of metal. In room no 10 the interiors of the Ottoman Turks were presented: there was a fountain in the center of the room, the ceilings were adorned with refined wood panels, and behind the mashabians there were women in a hidden room. In room no 11 the inlay technique is shown, brought to Egypt from Mosul in Iran. In room no 12 weapons from the Mamluk times were on display (Turkish Sultan Selim took most of them to Istanbul); you can admire the swords of the conqueror of Constantinople, Mehmed II and Sulei the Magnificent, the conquerors of the Balkans. In room no 13 items from the Fatimid period dominate (ceramics, glass). Dirty nr 14-16 exhibit Islamic ceramics (in room no 16 from the Fatimid period).
There are also mihrabs and a Turkish ceramic-tiled fireplace.
Coins were placed in room 16b, medals and seals. In room no 17 famous Egyptian fabrics are on display.
In the courtyard (room no 18) there are stone steles with Arabic inscriptions in kufi and neshi.
The collection of Islamic calligraphy and bookbinder works is in room no 19, and in room no 20 exhibits from the time of the Ottoman Turks (ceramic tiles, hiss). The Egyptian glass collection takes up room no 21. In room no 22 there are items of Persian origin, which in the period of the eighth-nineteenth century. hit the Egyptian market: ceramic products (VI1I-XVI w.) and famous Persian carpets (XVII-XIX w.). In room no 23 temporary exhibitions are organized.