NEWSWEEK
By Hugh Pearman
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The museum collection contains artefacts and artworks from Iran, India, Turkey, Egypt, Sicily,
North Africa and China and spans more than a thousand years of history. Tom Alban/Aga Khan Museum |
CANADA---At a time when the worldwide media image of Islam is dominated by nihilistic merchants of extreme violence, and just as the world wearily mobilises to meet this savage threat, something calmly encouraging happens in Toronto, Canada, to help redress the balance. Eighteen years in the planning, the $300m Aga Khan Museum and Ismaili Centre complex opened its doors to the public on September 18th: two highly significant buildings by master architects in a new 17-acre city park. It is a cultural complex that celebrates the other Islam: the artistic, intellectual and scientific achievements of Muslim societies from ancient times to the present. [
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| The Aga Khan museum, Toronto Tom Alban/Aga Khan Museum |