Welcome to Navigating Culture: Islam and Encounter in the Indian Ocean World, a Claremont Colleges Library, Special Collections exhibit reflecting the movement of people, culture, and ideas between Africa and Asia via passage through the Indian Ocean, spanning the 7th to 19th centuries.

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LI118.1 Mihrdukht aims her arrow at the ring

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From a Hamzanama manuscript, gouache with gold on cotton cloth, c. 1570. On loan to the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, from Howard Hodgkin.

LI118.80 Rawat Gokul Das at the Singh Sagarn

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gouache with gold and silver on paper, On loan to the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, from Howard Hodgkin