Islamic Art in Texas…

Almost every week here in Beirut, I meet someone new who has family living in Texas. Not many people in America realize that Texas has the fifth largest Muslim population in the country. Now that the Dallas Museum of Art has become the new home of the Keir Collection–one of the most important private collections of Islamic art in the world–the profile of Islam in Texas is likely to grow in prominence in the coming years. The impressive collection–which contains around 2,000 pieces–was created by Edmund de Unger, a Hungarian real-estate tycoon, who died in 2011.