MIA in Cairo is the largest Islamic museum in the world. It houses close to 100,000 antique Islamic artifacts collected from India, China, Iran, Arabia, the Levant, Egypt, North Africa, and Andalusia, and its artifacts date back to various Islamic eras.

It was built in 1880 and occupied part of the al-Hakem Mosque in Cairo, and in 1903, when its artifacts increased, the current building of the museum was built. Its collection of artifacts and rare manuscripts reveals the ingenuity of Muslim scholars in various sciences.