In pictures: Islamic art

A page from the luxurious 'Blue Koran', made in North Africa, and dating from the 10th Century.

The top section of a robe from the Mongol period with very long sleeves and intricate buttons.

A folio from the Akhlaq-i Nasiri, a philosophical treatise written by one of Iran's greatest medieval intellects, Nasir al-Din Tusi.

A detail from probably the earliest manuscript of part of the Canon of Medicine, one of the most influential texts in the history of medicine.

A bird-shaped medieval bronze incense burner. The perfumed smoke would come out of small holes in the container.

An Iranian glazed dish with the inscription: "Generosity is a disposition of the dwellers of paradise."

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