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Sat 07 Jul 2009Unveiling Islam's visual side
We tend to view Islam as inherently anti-art, but a new book featuring 188 images from the collection of Islamic art in the Chester Beatty Library may challenge our preconceptions
HE WAS not too tall nor too short. His hair was neither short and curly nor lank, but somewhere in between. His face was neither narrow nor round, though "there was a roundness to it". His eyes were black and his lashes long. He was big-boned and broad-shouldered. He had no body hair except in the middle of his chest. He leaned back as he walked, as if descending a slope. When he looked at anyone, he looked at them full in the face.
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