Henry S. Kim

For visitors who come to the Aga Khan Museum, the objects they encounter can be seen as points in a journey that connect cultures across time. The history of Islamic civilizations is one that can be characterized by continuous encounters with neighbouring peoples over fourteen hundred years. Spread across a vast region that stretched from Spain in the west to China in the east, the opportunities for interactions abounded, fuelled by trading contacts made over the land-based Silk Road and the maritime routes of the spice trade, and through cohabitation in regions such as Spain, Sicily, Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia, China, India, and Southeast Asia.' (Abstract from essay by Henry S. Kim)… (mais)