Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center launches a renewed museum display of collectibles "Light and peace"

Abu Dhabi, December 29 / WAM / The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center launched a new display for a selection of the “Nour and Salam” Museum’s collections, as part of a periodic museum plan to preserve Islamic heritage, promote cultural sustainability, and apply the highest international standards in preserving and displaying collections.

The recycling of the collections provides the museum’s guests with a rich and renewed cultural experience, as it reveals rare artistic and historical pieces that are displayed for the first time, embodying the aesthetics of Islamic arts and their diversity throughout the ages.

The new collection includes exceptional artistic and historical exhibits that were carefully selected to highlight the aesthetics and diversity of Islamic arts, including a new page from the Blue Qur’an, which is considered one of the rarest Qur’anic manuscripts in the world, written in golden Kufic script on indigo blue parchment bearing verses from Surat Al-Baqarah, and a gold-plated copper candlestick dating back to the year 945 AH/1539 AD, donated as an endowment to the Prophet’s Mosque from the court of the Prophet. Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, highlighting the prowess of metalsmithing in that era.

The display also includes a Transylvania-style prayer rug from the late seventeenth century, with its red color and weighted decorations, along with a wooden door inlaid with ivory from the fifteenth century that represents an exquisite Mamluk example of the arts of inlay and fine decoration, and a piece of silk from the interior covering of the Kaaba dating back to the year 1277 AH/1861 AD, which carries a high artistic value with its majestic golden decorations.

The display also includes an astrolabe made by Muhammad Mahdi al-Yazdi in the seventeenth century. It is a precise astronomical instrument that combines scientific accuracy and metallurgical art. It was used in navigation and observing celestial bodies, as well as rare manuscripts and Andalusian woodcuts, highlighting the splendor of Arabic calligraphy, and books documenting prominent Islamic landmarks, reflecting the richness of Islamic arts and the diversity of its schools throughout the ages.

Through this renewed presentation, the Center confirms its keenness to preserve the precious historical and artistic heritage, and to enhance its position as a global cultural and knowledge beacon inspired by the values ​​of coexistence and tolerance established by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, “may God rest his soul,” and to spread its message of promoting civilizational dialogue and cultural openness among the peoples of the world.

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