The Wonders of the Islamic Worlds of Art and Science, Illuminated

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Raphael Miner

The illustrated ‘‘Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita’’ (Treatise on the fixed stars) was produced in 1010.

SPAIN---Four years ago, when the curator Sabiha Al Khemir started preparing an exhibition on the role of light in Islamic art, her plan was to select artworks and objects that visually expressed light or had a direct scientific connection with it. he result is an exhibition of 150 works, “Nur: Light in Art and Science from the Islamic World,” which runs through Feb. 9 at the Fundación Focus-Abengoa, a cultural center, and spans eleven centuries. [link]