A glimpse at Islamic Artifacts

CAIRO - 9 May 2019: The Islamic Art Museum contains more than 100,000 masterpieces covering all branches of Islamic art in various eras.

The museum’s Islamic collections include textiles, carpets, stones, ivory, ceramics, timber, metals, glass, manuscripts, coins, ornaments and weapons.

Among the pieces of metal found in the museum is a copper-plated brass and gold-plated brass perfume bottle which spans back to Egypt’s Mamluk era in the eighth century AH / 14 AD. That is in addition to another perfume holder that comes in the form of a bottle with inscriptions written in the thuluth font, referring to the name of the Mamluk Sultan Nasser Hassan, who took the rule of Egypt in the year 488.

It is noteworthy that the Mamluk Sultan Al-Nasir Hassan is the eighth son of Nasser Mohamed ibn Qalawun, who took power after his brother Muzaffar Zain al-Din Haji ibn al-Nasir Muhammad and took over his brother Nasser Badr al-Din for the second time.