Not On Display

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Hamdan Q’uran

Doctors Nahla and Suleiman Hamdan of St. Clair Shores, MI are both instructors at Wayne State University. They are art collectors, and she is a jewelry designer as well, with pieces for sale in the AANM Museum Store. This Q’uran, printed in 1979, has a cover of inlaid mother of pearl. The first four pages have blue, gold, and green embellishments; the following pages of text have an orange stylized background with black type. It’s a new acquisition for the AANM, but not on display here; it will be loaned to the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. for display there from 2008 through 2015, in an exhibition featuring articles found in homes.

Religious Icon

Metropolitan Philip Saliba of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese in Englewood, NJ recently donated this intricate icon, Synaxis of the Great Saints of the Holy Church of Antioch. It depicts the Holy Lady of Saidnaya amid a group of saints. Located near Damascus, Syria, Saidnaya was the seat of the ancient Patriarchate of Antioch, a location second only to Jerusalem in religious significance. Both Christians and Muslims visit the ancient convent at Saidnaya to ask the Holy Lady for healing. This image of the Saidnaya convent was donated to the AANM by Father George Shalhoub of Saint Mary’s Basilica in Livonia.