Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

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The Museum of Islamic Art, located in BAB AL- KHALQ in the heart of Historic Cairo, is considered to be the LARGEST Islamic Art museum in the world, as it houses close to a HUNDRED THOUSAND antique Islamic artifacts of various types collected from India, China, Iran, all the way to the ARABIAN PENINSULA, the Levant, Egypt, North Africa and Andalusia. This collection is CHARACTERIZED by its breadth of coverage of all the branches of Islamic Art throughout the ages, which makes it a BEACON of Islamic Art and Civilization for all times.

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