A touch-sensitive screen showing the Anvar-i-Suhayli (Lights of Canopus) collection of 15th century fables. PHOTO/Sean Gallup/Getty Images. Guardian for more photos
Berlin – German President Horst Koehler called Tuesday for people to respect one another’s differences, at the Berlin opening of the Aga Khan exhibition, which includes some of the world’s most important Islamic art.
‘To admire the art of another, it is first necessary to respect what the other person thinks and feels,’ Koehler said, expressing his hope that the exhibition would encourage a cultural dialogue, ‘which respects otherness.’
The exhibition comprises around 200 items from the Aga Khan’s world famous art collection, including paintings, drawings, manuscripts, ceramics and wood carvings, spanning more than 1,000 years of Islamic cultural history.
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