Over the course of five decades, Professor Sir Nasser D. Khalili has assembled eight of the world’s finest art collections – each on its own merit being the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Together, the Eight Collections comprise some 35,000 magnificent works, many of which have been exhibited at prestigious institutions worldwide.

Each work of art in the Khalili Collections has been meticulously conserved, researched, catalogued and published as part of what is considered to be one of the most ambitious art scholarship projects in modern history. Eighty of over a hundred planned volumes have already been published, edited by Sir David and with contributions from the world’s leading experts in each respective field.

The Art of Hajj Alongside the successful program on BBC click on Hajj and simultaneously In conjunction with the yearly celebration of Hajj on 17th July, we are privilege to announce an innovative website showing a selection of artworks to take you through a journey to the heart of Islam, illustrating the rich religious, spiritual, [...]

The Khalili Collections featured on BBC Click    The Khalili Collection's pioneering digitisation programme was the main feature of the latest BBC Click episode titled "High-Res Hajj". The episode coincides with the annual Hajj pilgrimage, which takes place later this week in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. As the BBC highlights, the Khalili Collections holds "the largest and [...]

The Democratisation of Culture KNOWLEDGE WISDOM Start Time 25 February 2021 5:00 pm Venue Zoom MODERATED BY: Anne McElvoy – Senior editor a The Economist, and head of Economist Radio ON THE PANEL: Professor Sir Nasser David Khalili – globally-renowned scholar, collector and pioneer of cultural philanthropy. His mission is to promote intercultural and interfaith unity [...]

The Collection contains the largest and most comprehensive range of Qur’anic material in private hands. This, the first of four volumes devoted to the subject

Focusing on pilgrimage to Mecca and the arts associated with it, the Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage Collection is the largest and the most important of its kind

This is the first publication of a group of 30 documents on leather in Official Aramaic, dating to the 4th century bc and reflecting the practice of the

Japanese cloisonné enamels were a technical triumph of the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) periods, and the 107 examples reproduced in this

The Khalili Collection of kimono, which comprises more than 200 garments and spans 300 years of Japanese textile artistry, brilliantly conveys the remarkable creativity of

The art of damascening in precious metals on iron is of great antiquity, and was the decoration of choice on arms and armour from prehistory through to modern times.

Swedish Textile Art is the first book for more than a decade to present some of the best examples of textile art from southern Sweden, small panels that were mostly

This volume presents over 300 pieces from the ‘Enamels of the World 1700–2000’ collection, the most comprehensive private collection known dedicated to this unique art form.