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Ḥasan, Zakī Muḥammad al-Miṣrī
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Ḥasan, Zakī Muḥammad al-Miṣrī, also known as Zaky Muhammad Hassan (1326–1377/1908–1957), Egyptian art historian who introduced the use of contemporary methods to the study of Islamic art.

Zakī Muḥammad Ḥasan began his studies at Cairo University, finishing his first degree in 1930. He completed his studies in Paris with a diploma in Asiatic and Islamic Art at the École du Louvre, a diploma in Persian from the École des Langues Orientales in 1932, followed by a doctorate in 1934 at the Université de Paris, with a thesis on…

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Yadollah Gholami and Translated by Jaimee Comstock-Skipp, “Ḥasan, Zakī Muḥammad al-Miṣrī”, in: Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Farhad Daftary. Consulted online on 22 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1875-9831_isla_SIM_067257>
First published online: 2022



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