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Khalili, Nasser D

LC control no.n 93007008
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Personal name headingKhalili, Nasser D.
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Variant(s)Ḥ'alili, Natser Daṿid
Khalīlī, Nāṣir Dāwūd
خلىلى، ناصر داوود
Associated countryGreat Britain United States
Associated placeIran
LocatedLondon (England)
Birth date1945-12-18
Place of birthIṣfahān (Iran)
Field of activityIslamic art Art--Collectors and collecting Endowment of research Family foundations Peace Religious tolerance
AffiliationKhalili Family Trust University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Spanish Metalwork Khalili Collection of Textile Art Maimonides Foundation
Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East (University of Oxford)
Profession or occupationArt historians Art--Collectors and collecting Educational benefactors Philanthropists College teachers
Special noteNon-Latin-script reference not evaluated.
Found inNasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. The Abbasid tradition, c1992: ser. t.p. (Nasser D. Khalili) jkt. (Dr. Nasser D. Khalili; scholar in Islamic art; honorary fellow of the Univ. of London)
Mamlekhet ha-sulṭanim, 1996: t.p. (Natser D. Ḥ'alili) t.p. verso (Nasser D. Khalili [in rom.]) p. 5 (Dr. Natser Daṿid Ḥ'alili)
The art and tradition of the Zuloagas, c1997: p. 213 (Dr. Nasser D. Khalili; born in Iran in 1945; he is a citizen of the United Kingdom & the United States; resides in London)
Aramaic documents from ancient Bactria (fourth century BCE.) from the Khalili collections, 2012: p. ix (Professor Nasser D. Khalili, Ph. D., KCSS, KCFO; founder, The Khalili Collections; I was born a Persian Jew) jacket (Professor Nasser D. Khalili; a scholar, collector, and philanthropist; since 1970, he has assembled, under the auspices of the Khalili Family Trust, five comprehensive art collections, comprising some 25,000 works: The arts of the Islamic world (700-1900); Japanese art of the Meiji period (1868-1912), Swedish textiles (1700-1900), Spanish damascened metalwork (1850-1900), and Enamels of the world (1700-2000); founded the Nasser D Khalili Chair of Islamic Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; endowed the Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East at the University of Oxford; graduate, associate research professor, and honorary fellow of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; co-founder and chairman of the Maimonides Foundation, which promotes peace and understanding between Muslims and Jews)
Wikipedia, 25 August 2015 (Nasser Khalili; Nasser David Khalili; Persian: ناصر داوود خلىلى‎ = Nāṣir Dāwūd Khalīlī; born 18 December 1945 in Esfahan; a British-Iranian scholar, collector, and philanthropist based in London; he holds British citizenship; after completing his schooling and national service in Iran, he moved to the United States of America in 1967, where he continued his education; in 1978, he settled in the United Kingdom)
Associated languageeng