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"Indeed, the language of garden arts and science is extraordinarily rich in Muslim cultures."

"The integration of inscriptions into architecture was a mainstay of Islamic architectural decoration from the early Islamic period onwards, leading to a sometimes overwhelming volume of text in richly decorated interiors."

"The mystic-romantic themes of much classical Persian poetry are sometimes illustrated in a rather elliptical manner...."

At the chapter: "The Fortress and the City."

"The paper scroll was one of the most common portable artefacts of pilgrimage and a large number include either hand-drawn, or block-printed, and coloured images of Mecca, Medina, and, less frequently, Jerusalem."

"Arab, Persian and Turkish literatures contain a large number of treatises or poems on the art of the book or calligraphy. Some of these volumes have a technical or historical nature, but above all these works are intended to testify to the exceptional worth of the book and writing."

"Each style possessed very specific differentiations defined by tradition. The first of these was the length of the letter alif defined by a system of point-measurement that determined the size of the other letters..."

The mission of the Aga Khan Museum, its collection, and its educational programmes is to become a medium of discourse, a vehicle of discovery, and “to promote intellectual openness and tolerance and to create increased cultural understanding."