Illuminations of the Islamic World, the exhibition : Ressource du site Enluminures en terre d'Islam

Is representation totally excluded from the Islamic art as we very often think it is? Teeming as they are with characters and life, the many miniatures which adorn some books seem however to prove the contrary. Islam has developed an original art, magnifying the word of God, based on ornamentation, and calligraphy. As it mingles with the abstract illumination in which the miniature flourishes in many secular texts. The virtual exhibition aims to be a guide through the prestigious Arab, Persian and Turkish manuscripts which are preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, with an access with commentary to the 300 manuscripts which have been digitized in the digital library Gallica