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The Farjam assortment, part of Iranian H#226;fez beginning for Islamic Arts, holds a number of exhibitions on numerous topics of Islamic arts all year long, in most cases in Iran, Kish Island Emirates. this can be in their 2009 exhibition on Islamic Arts of Iran :Part I: forty pgs. basic creation to the several branches of Persian Islamic paintings. half II: eighty pgs. at the arts concerning the inscription and ornamentation of Quranic manuscripts from Iran.
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