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The Islamic art exhibit at the Sackler Museum opens the door to a fairy-tale world of noble kings, evil demons and enchanted forests. Paintings for Princes: The Art of the Book in Islam is an unusually vivid and fascinating exhibit.
The about two dozen miniature paintings that make up this exhibit had been commisionned for manuscripts or albums by Islamic nobility centuries ago. These nobles valued the works so much that they often kept the pieces with them when traveling, and it is easy for the modern museum visitor to...
Any moral judgment must take into account the alternative. Israel cannot stand alone, and if it is abandoned by its friends for not meeting Western standards of morality, it will die. What will replace it? The neighbors: Syria, Jordan, the P.L.O., Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Ahmed Jabril, Abu Nidal (if he...
The Tadzhiks, who share cultural and ethnic origins with the Iranians, are staging what has the potential to become the Soviet Union's first indigenous Islamic revolution. At least 18 people were killed and hundreds injured, either by the gunfire of nervous troops or the attacks of roaming Tadzhiks. At...
We learn that there were spontaneous elections in the square the previous afternoon, but the new leaders, called People's Representatives, seem reluctant to identify themselves. They are unmistakably Islamic in orientation, we are told, and some of them want Islam to be declared the national religion of the republic...