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Sheila R. Canby
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “metropolitan museum of art 's curator of islamic art and a former curator of islamic art and antiquities at the”. Today it says “american art historian and curator”.
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Canby (born 10 January 1949) is Curator Emerita of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York and a former curator of Islamic art and antiquities at the British Museum . She is a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “metropolitan museum of art 's curator of islamic art and a former curator of islamic art and antiquities at the”. Today it says “american art historian and curator”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
metropolitan museum of art 's curator of islamic art and a former curator of islamic art and antiquities at the
Now
american art historian and curator
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