(8 Apr 2025)
UAE ISLAMIC ARMS EXHIBITION
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 7 April 2025
1. Historic Islamic arms on display, with Sotheby’s Middle East and India Chairman Edward Gibbs talking to a journalist in the background
2. Daggers
3. Gibbs arranging daggers
4. Steel Ottoman chanfron, a plate armor to protect a horse’s head
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Edward Gibbs, Sotheby’s chairman for the Middle East and India:
"This is a very important collection of arms and armor, which belonged to a French collector called Philippe Missillier. Missillier spent 50 years putting this collection together and it documents 500 years of Islamic weaponry with a particular focus on the great kingdoms, the great empires of the Mughals in India and the Ottomans in Turkey."
6. Sword
7. Gibbs showing a sword
8. Wide of exhibition, paintings on wall
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Edward Gibbs, Sotheby’s chairman for the Middle East and India:
"We’re very excited to be selling an important private collection of watercolors by the Scottish artist David Roberts. David Roberts was brought up in a very poor family in Scotland. He had a lifelong ambition to travel to the Middle East, which he finally achieved. He arrived in Cairo in 1838, he hired a guide and some camels. He travelled with two fellow Scotsmen and he explored all the major sites of the Holy Land, going to Sinai, Hebron, Jericho and finally, arriving at his destination of Jerusalem."
10. Visitors looking at paintings by Scottish painter David Roberts
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Edward Gibbs, Sotheby’s chairman for the Middle East and India:
"These are extremely important and rare views. When he came back to London, he showed these views to the London society who were astonished by what they saw because it was the very first time they were seeing the great sights of the Holy Land."
12. Various of Gibbs with visitors
13. Visitors looking at old copy of Quran, Islam’s holy book
14. Quran
15. Tilt-down from visitors to Quran
16. Inlaid candlestick and metal helmet on display, with Quranic manuscripts in the background
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Edward Gibbs, Sotheby’s chairman for the Middle East and India:
"Here, we have one of the earliest fragments to survive from the 7th century AD, the first century of the Hijri (Lunar calendar). It’s on vellum, it’s what’s known as Hijazi script, the type of script, Arabic script which is developed in the Hijaz in western Arabia. And you can see it’s quite damaged. It’s one leaf from a Quran, which was produced almost within the lifetime of the Prophet (Muhammad), so an extremely rare example."
18. Metal helmet, with Gibbs and visitor in the background
19. Gibbs showing Islamic arms to visitor
STORYLINE:
Rare Islamic weapons from the 7th to the 19th centuries are on display at an exhibition in Dubai that also features paintings of significant sites in the Middle East and manuscripts of the Quran, Islam’s holy book.
Some of these weapons were owned by sultans and shahs who played a pivotal role in shaping the course of history.
The weapons, which bring the past to life through the art of warfare, are part of an exhibition taking place at auction house Sotheby’s Dubai.
The centuries-old weapons feature intricately decorated handles and piercing sharp blades, reflecting the skill and craftsmanship of their makers.
The swords, daggers, armor and other arms are from the collection of French collector Phillippe Missilier, who spent 50 years amassing weapons.
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