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There was a vast amount of found in Islamic culture. Of those, the many luxury pieces of art that emerged within the community show much about the Islamic society. Using and then adapting techniques for metal from the Romans and Byzantine, the Islamic made a metal work style of their own. Nowhere better than can this be seen than in the work of the Shazi. The Shazi is a pen box made out of brass with some silver and copper and is about a foot long and an inch wide. Shazi, the creator of this pen box, was an artist commanded by the chief minister of the early thirteenth century Majd al-Mulk al-Muzaffar. It is thought to have originated from either Persia or Afghanistan. It was the first known signed piece of I