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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has now published Islamic Arms and Armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by David Alexander, with contributions from Stuart Pyhrr, the former curator, and Will Kwiatkowski, the Oriental languages and epigraphy scholar. While it would be hard to find two better qualified scholars to assist in the preparation of such a catalogue, the book is for the most part written by David Alexander, described rather modestly by the museums director, Thomas Campbell, as being r