Please circulate as appropriate:
Eastern Art Online welcomes you to explore its collection of artefacts from
the Islamic World on the occasion on *Ramadan*. Many of these artefacts are
on display in the Ashmolean's Islamic Middle East
gallery<http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/collection/4/837>,
there is also an Islamic Ceramics
trail<http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/collection/6/653> to
follow, an online version the publication*Embroideries and Samplers from
Islamic Eqypt <http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/collection/7/1252>* by
Marianne Ellis to explore, as well as other related material to discover on
the site.
*Ramadan* (also known as *Ramadhan* or *Ramzan*) is the ninth month in the
Islamic calendar and, according to the Qur’an, the month when the revelation
to Muhammad began. For Muslims it is a period of prayer, fasting, and
charity-giving. As the Islamic calendar is lunar rather than solar, the
month of Ramadan changes its location in respect to the Gregorian calendar
every year. In 2011, Ramadan falls between 1st and 29th August. The end of
the month is marked by the celebrations of ‘*Eid al-Fitr*(‘Festival of the
breaking of the fast’).
For further information about* Ramandan *and the Ashmolean's collection of
artefacts from the Islamic World, please see:
http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/project/6977/9507
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Paul Groves
Project Manager
Eastern Art Online: Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
University of Oxford
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‘The most stunning loan exhibition ever to have come from Greece’
Financial Times
‘The show of the summer’
Sunday Telegraph
Heracles to Alexander the Great
Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age
of Democracy
Until 29 August 2011 | Tickets £8/£6
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Paul Groves
Project Manager
Eastern Art Online: Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
University of Oxford
Beaumont Street
Oxford OX1 2PH
W: jameelcentre.ashmolean.org
E: [log in to unmask]
T: +44 (0)1865 278 289
Skype: pgroves999
Twitter: http://twitter.com/paul_gr0ves
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/pgroves
Open: Tuesday–Sunday 10–6 (closed on Mondays)
Information: T: +44(0)1865 278 000 / W: www.ashmolean.org
For disclaimer see http://www.ashmolean.org/email/
……………………………………………………………
‘The most stunning loan exhibition ever to have come from Greece’
Financial Times
‘The show of the summer’
Sunday Telegraph
Heracles to Alexander the Great
Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age
of Democracy
Until 29 August 2011 | Tickets £8/£6
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