Will this exhibit explain how the Islamic influence on Western art was severely limited by the fact that Sharia forbids representation of the human form? Will the British Museum host an exhibition on how Western art influenced the Islamic world, a topic about which there is a great deal that could be said, ranging from the cultural appropriation of Byzantine church architecture to the stylistic similarities of Shi’ite iconography to Western art? The answer to both questions is “of course not.” This is just another example of the British intelligentsia’s ongoing efforts to compel Britons to be ashamed of their own culture and heritage, and to think of Islamic culture as antecedent and superior to their own. It’s just more of Britain’s ongoing cultural suicide.
“British Museum Unveils New Exhibition Depicting Islamic World’s Influence on West,” Media Line, August 4, 2019:
The British Museum has announced a special exhibition, opening in October 2019, that will explore how western artists have been inspired by the Islamic world. Inspired by the East: How the Islamic World Influenced Western Art…is a collaboraton with the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (IAMM).
Lloyd Miller says
Ok, but what will they be showing? Mosaic designs? Patterns?
mortimer says
Rivers of blood, scimitars, veils, pictures of nude female slaves in a slave market ogled by lascivious old, bearded men in dresses, pictures of bearded savages on horses and camels.
Rufolino says
The Museum exhibition is just one of MANY examples throughout British culture today of people trying to appease Islam, and Moslems, and public opinion, by attempting to present Islam in a positive light.
This is everywhere in Britain today and heralds the coming implosion of Britain’s identity itself.
Zaki says
Thee British museum should hold an exhibition showing the Christian colonists massacred millions of people during the colonial era. How Native Americans and Australian Aborigines were hunted down in order to give way to White colonial powers to occupy their own homeland. It should also host exhibition which will should prove to the world how Adolf hitler was brainwashed into hating Jews during his infancy living in Austria, not by Quran or Satanic Bible, but by the Christian priests who constantly blamed Jews for killing Jesus Christ and how today many Christians are trying to pin Anti semitism on Muslims and occasionally try to depict Adolf Hitler as an Atheist.
Cicero says
Zak is you make some good points . However two wrongs do not a right make.
Although yes Christian ideology and history has committed many injustices and genocides either physical and cultural against non Christian peoples it does not mean that the voluminous articles and Op -Ed’s on Jihad Watch about the cruelties and genocides by Islam against non Muslim peoples and their cultures is a fabrication.
This web site is called Jihad Watch for a reason – to analyse , critically evaluate on the ideology of Islam and to report on the impact of Islamic ideology on its adherents and on non Muslims around the globe – both current and historical.
If you are so exercised about atrocities committed by Christians then why don’t you use your intelligence to create a Christian Watch website?
We can all see through the transparency of your Tu Quoque arguments so beloved by your fellow religionists
CogitoErgoSum says
I agree with most of what you say here, Cicero, but I’m wondering what in Christian ideology supports its followers in committing genocide? How do any of the words or actions of Jesus in the Bible support or even suggest that?
CRUSADER says
Germs Guns and Steel….
CRUSADER says
It’s not Christian ideology — for Christ wouldn’t support such genocide,etc.
Stop blaming Christianity!
People being sinners are to blame, since they aren’t right with God’s Will.
God’s Will is discerned and perceived first by believing, and then the blessings are knowable.
1- Peacefulness (does the path tsken ultimately lead one to peace)
2 – Word (does Scripture jibe with what you are undertaking — check it out)
3 – Providence (equipping us with what we need to undertake the path)
Whereas the Queer’an is chock full of stuff and nonsense with violence promoted and
Blame the Islamists all you CAIR ! They are the deluded ones.
Meanwhile this is the type of Islamic influence most indubitably affected the Western art world at a time when Islam was seen most clearly:
The Hospitalier Maréchal defending the walls at the “Siege of Acre, 1291” by Dominique Papety (1815–49) displayed at Versailles.
CogitoErgoSum says
The Spanish Christians did not come to the New World with the intention of wiping out the natives. The leaders of the early expeditions to the New World were mostly interested in finding gold and silver — things that Jesus told his followers to give away to the poor. I think these Christians were actually acting in violation of Christian ideology, wouldn’t you say?
As for the early Christians from England, they came so as to find freedom from religious persecution. They thought the land didn’t belong to anybody. But the Indians didn’t like sharing the land and resources with them so conflict developed over that. Again, it was not any Christian ideology that made them fight with the Indians. It was mostly self-protection. In fact, because there were usually more men than women settlers the European men would often marry the Indian women. Could that be called genocide?
CogitoErgoSum says
Also, looking at this from the viewpoint of the American Indians, they were divided into hundreds of separate tribes. None of these tribes thought of the land as being something they could own. To them it was like the sky — just there. Those who wanted to use the land or hunt on it could do so if they were strong enough and courageous enough to win out in the competition over it. So the Indian tribes would fight with each other and the spoils of war went to the victor. That was their ideology.
So, even looking at things from the perspective of the Native Americans, I don’t see how the Europeans would be any more or any less genocidal than any of the other tribes competing for control of the land. They were just the white tribe. The Indians would have wiped out the Europeans if the Indians would have had better weapons and they would have been proud of it. I don’s imagine they would have had any lingering feelings of guilt over it to pass along either.
jayell says
Sorry, but it seems that Zaki’s points regarding colonialism are inaccurate because he/she is assuming that the imperialist exploits of the European colonists were specifically motivated by religious (Christian) dogma, whereas the motivation was not religious but, if anything, essentially pure political expansionism, and the colonists’ actions were clearly in breach of the tenets of the faith we’re assuming they were supposed to be following. This would not have been the first time that this sort of thing has happened!
I’m afraid that Zaki’s points about Adolf Hitler are complete rubbish since Hitler’s genocidal antisemitism, echoing a general underlying xenophobic tendency in that direction amongst certain European populations since the Middle Ages,was in this case motivated by economic factors following the defeat of Germany after WW1 and had little if anything to do with authentic Christian theology (which most certainly does NOT advocate antisemitism). Whilst the Roman Catholic Church has some answering to do with regards to its failure to challenge Hitler – and, I believe, maybe even colluded with him for the purposes of political expediency – Hitler’s motivation was the glorification of the German Aryan peoples and their heritage and I am not aware of any meaningful or repeated references to Jesus Christ in his speeches or in Nazi propaganda. Indeed, Christianity was if anything fundamentally ‘un-Germanic’. If any deities would have had any appeal at all for the likes of Hitler in his quest for German supremacism, it’s more likely to have been the Gods of ancient Teutonic mythology; and indeed this contention might be seen to be borne out in Hitler’s admiration of the German operatic composer Wagner, whose works focus on Germanic culture and mytholgy. Also, whilst using the re-invention of German history to support a piece of typically fallacious islamic propaganda, I’m surprised that Zaki hasn’t also dragged up that other gem of pseudo-religious historical mis-construction, the so-called Catholic-Protestant problem in Ireland, which is actually little more or less than a piece of ridicuously-protracted self-indugent partisan bigotry based on an ancient tribal feud and has no basis in Christian theology whatsoever. Yet people frequently try that one on!
Zaki seems to be negligently or deliberately confusing religion with politics in his/her self-validating attempt to drag Christianity down to the level of islam, This would be perfectly understandable from an islamic standpoint, since islam was conceived in the first place as a totalitarian imperialist political ideology (not unlike national Socialism) with an added plagiarised religious facade to give it validiation amongst the populations it sought to control and – to a follower of islam – all religions would no doubt of necessity have to have this manipulative political basis since this alone would represent the definition of ‘religion’. Zaki clearly does not understand that Christianity not only does NOT have this dimension but openly rejects it (cf. Jesus’ advice to ‘render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s’ – unlike the islamic position, where everything ultimately reverts to Allah and his servant Mohammed whether initially obtained legitimately or illegitimately).
CRUSADER says
Now now, there, jayell, Mohamhead only demanded 20% of the war booty….
(Or at least the caliphate war lords of Arabia who fabricated the Queer’an have followers believe it so, as to gain said booty from their labors and sacrifices as stooges — uh, as “martyrs”!)
Naildriver says
“Pin anti semitism on Muslims”?
Are you stupid? Islam is inherently bigoted toward Judaism to its very core, and provides for it in the Koran. While anti semitism existed independent of Muslims it hardly exonerates Muslims devotees who simply follow the directives from Mohammed found in all their most trusted sources.
This tiresome argument that the other evils found in the world exonerated Muslims or vindicated Islam is patently wrong.
CogitoErgoSum says
Zaki, I think you had better inform Wikipedia of this new information concerning Hitler because the article on him there contains the following information:
“Hitler was born to a practicing Catholic mother, and was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church. From a young age, he expressed disbelief and hostility to Christianity. But in 1904, acquiescing to his mother’s wish, he was confirmed at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Linz, Austria, where the family lived. According to John Willard Toland, witnesses indicate that Hitler’s confirmation sponsor had to “drag the words out of him … almost as though the whole confirmation was repugnant to him”. Rissmann notes that, according to several witnesses who lived with Hitler in a men’s home in Vienna, Hitler never again attended Mass or received the sacraments after leaving home. Several eyewitnesses who lived with Hitler while he was in his late teens and early-to-mid 20s in Vienna state that he never attended church after leaving home at 18.”
I know Wikipedia has its critics but I tend to trust them more than I do you. I think Hitler despised Christianity and probably all religions. If Hitler had any religion at all it probably involved ancient German mythology or the occult. If he had any interest in Islam it was because he admired it militarist aspects and lack of sentimentality towards any of its enemies.
CRUSADER says
Well done, CES.
The outer Hitler embraced mythologies.
Most likely the inner mind of Hitler was influenced heavily by the Devil, who is the genius deceiver and inventor of lies. Hitler believed in promoting The Big Lie.
People really fell for Hitler as a leader
— and they had themselves to blame!
After WW1, people really developed doubts within themselves rather than turning deeper toward eternal Truth.
This trend only furthered after technology boomed from WW2 onward….
Angemon says
“Thee British museum should hold an exhibition showing the Christian colonists massacred millions of people during the colonial era. How Native Americans and Australian Aborigines were hunted down in order to give way to White colonial powers to occupy their own homeland.”
ITT: “White colonial powers” were using biological warfare long before anyone knew diseases were caused by microbes… How about, instead, the museum hold an exposition regarding the jihad against India, detailing, in great detail, as written by your coreligionists, the atrocities and massacres waged by your jihadis buddies?
“It should also host exhibition which will should prove to the world how Adolf hitler was brainwashed into hating Jews during his infancy living in Austria, not by Quran or Satanic Bible, but by the Christian priests who constantly blamed Jews for killing Jesus Christ”
Funny – I believe that it is you, muslims, who call Jews “prophet killers”…
“and how today many Christians are trying to pin Anti semitism on Muslims”
*ahem*
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/08/sharia-professor-if-you-are-a-muslim-who-believes-in-the-quran-you-must-believe-that-the-jews-are-your-enemies
I guess that sharia professor must be a Christian, right, Zaik?…
FYI says
“trying to pin antisemitism on muslims”?
Are you for real?The koran is more antisemitic then mr hitler’s mein kampf.
Look…
1.The Jews:”Apes to be despised and hated” koran 2:67
2.koran 9:30 the Jews are CURSED on a false premise:”and the Jews say ‘Ezra is the son of allah”
This concept doesn’t even exist in Judaism!}
3.Sahih muslim #6985 islamic genocidal policy towards the Jews
This policy is in evidence today when Jews are being targeted and murdered by islamic fascists.
4 .The koran denies the Jewish prophets were even Jews
k3:67″Abraham was not a Jew”}
5.in islam,the “angel” jibreel is defined as being “The ENEMY of the Jews”
Sahih Bukhari vol 4 book 60 no 3321
6. muhammmed was a mass-murderer of Jews {Abu Dawud 4390}
muhammed CURSED the Jews Sahih Muslim 1082
At least educate yourself on islamic antisemitism…
Al lah the muslim god,its “prophet” muhammed,its koran are totally antisemitic!
{BTW,people who do bad things in the name of Christianity are actually condemned by the Gospel.
That there are bad people who misused religion,that colonialism is appaling etc is not disputed.
I have always felt that Australian Aborigines and Native Americans should be given special recognition and I deplore any imperialist colonialism.
hitler had a Nietzschian hatred for christianity:he ended up committing suicide after his evil empire rightly collapsed and Nietzsche,mr “God is dead”, ended up insane an asylum.Only a fan of hitler ,of fasciscm{or leftard bolshevism:both sides of the same coin} or an islamic apologist would be foolish enough to claim hitler was brainwashed{“in his infancy” LOL} by christian priests.
hitler did that on his own:to suggest otherwise is to detract from his evil,his personal responsiblility.
n says
Howdy, Zak, stick around here at JW and you will eventually lose your faith in the false prophet. It is guaranteed.
Zak, remember: Islam cannot be defended by any argument. Islam is amoral, unhistorical and self-referentially incoherent.
Read JihadWatch every day. Lose your faith.
mortimer says
Hello Zak, Do you condemn the slavery practiced by Mohammed? Yes or no?
gravenimage says
This from Zaki is grotesque–firstly, his implication that the West has never dealt with the negative aspects of its history is quite false.
Then, this ugliness was not taught by Christianity–indeed, it flew in the face of Christians teachings.
Then, Islam itself teaches the slaughter of Jews and “pagans”, would would very much include Native Americans and Australian Aborigines.
So, what is the point of Zaki’s post? Just this–to hope to induce unearned guilt in modern Westerners, so that Muslims can more easily conquer us. Then, they can continue their oppression, enslavement, and murder of Infidels.
CRUSADER says
Let’s face it, Islam makes brains stupider and hearts harder and souls baser.
DELUSIONAL stuff by Z
gravenimage says
This is not delusion on the part of Zaki, CRUSADER–it is intended to weaken defense against Jihad.
CRUSADER says
GI
Zaki may intend something but it doesn’t weaken resolve, considering that it emboldens knowledge rather than displacing it — certainly among us in CounterJihad.
Zaki doesn’t seem to understand the inevitability pointed out in “Guns, Germs, and Steel”;
For the reasons CogitoErgoSum above brings up, it is delusional of Zaki to state the below:
“Thee British museum should hold an exhibition showing the Christian colonists massacred millions of people during the colonial era. How Native Americans and Australian Aborigines were hunted down in order to give way to White colonial powers to occupy their own homeland. It should also host exhibition which will should prove to the world how Adolf hitler was brainwashed into hating Jews during his infancy living in Austria, not by Quran or Satanic Bible, but by the Christian priests who constantly blamed Jews for killing Jesus Christ and how today many Christians are trying to pin Anti semitism on Muslims and occasionally try to depict Adolf Hitler as an Atheist.”
Zaki is so lost!
What a lark!
Naildriver says
The far left has a significant hold upon the art world. Certainly most colleges and universities art departments are essentially propaganda mills now.
And sadly that includes many otherwise conservatively focused colleges as well. Perhaps it’s the surrender for practicality to dump such students into it or an allowance for financial need for students or a liberal bent that this state of affairs exists so pervasively.
I recall the Fountainhead where Anne Ryan’s discusses this tendency with a character named Ellworth Tooey wherein she laments that art and cultural heritage is so appropriated without a fight.
She also points out the consequences but now many years later her good observations are becoming even more ominous.
Art should be taken seriously by the the conservative and sane people in society and efforts to enable artists who share their views or are non political.
CRUSADER says
Any Rand led me to conservative thought….
gravenimage says
A wonderful book by Ayn Rand on art is “The Romantic Manifesto”. I’m an artist, and a lot of what passes for art today is an embarrassment. Still better than the brutal aridity of the Muslim world, though.
Naildriver says
Thanks for the spelling correction of her name. I knew there was a ‘Y’ in it somewhere. And she deserves to be read.
Her insights into character motivations was excellent, and the political or philosophical leanings was very telling, particularly in the liberal’s mentality and their destructive activities in the the West via socialism.
I wouldn’t grieve if all Islamic art was bull dozed and burned if it meant Islam was destroyed as a force in the world. I know that’s another statement that we’d be lowering ourselves to thier level — but their level is the texts and Koran they follow. Yes, words matter and otherwise good people join enemy ranks all the time..
So does art matter, and the exposition of Islamic art through a major institution as the British Museum is a betrayal and near treason by those who decide such things They ought to be relieved of their jobs. This is because Islam is the West’s present and lethal enemy.It’s propaganda.
This is not a rare event either colleges and universities all over the West do this in their respective art centers and museums do the same all the time; in some misguided notion it’s for a peaceful understanding and mutual respect between our two cultures; but in fact, such displays tell Muslim devotees things are going well for their propaganda efforts; so they needn’t send out terrorists. Western politicians take it to mean Islam is a peaceful or manageable system — nothing could be further from the truth.
gravenimage says
+1
jarmanray says
The only innovation that Islam has ever managed is the many ways to slaughter human beings and reasons to kill them.
Cicero says
It is not just leading lights of British culture which have adopted Dhimmitude in a huge way. even lesser British institutions are rushing in their lemming like droves to debase themselves before the juggernaut hit of Islam . The East London Health Trust has been mounting workshops teaching children and patients the glories of Islamic art and teaching it to them The trust is also mounting their own exhibitions of islamic Art and forcing patients to gaze at as the recover !
Concerned Citizen says
And the Whole Truth will set you FREE
Angemon says
Well, there are depictions of the Crusades – I guess one could say those images wouldn’t exist without islam…
Angemon says
Oh, and the Song of Roland.
CRUSADER says
AMEN !
owensgate says
I wouldn’t call Destruction of art “Influenced”, but there is NO “Art” anywhere in islam.
lebel says
Quick, someone might think that Islam is not entirely evil and disgusting! RS to the rescue!
The fact is Western art influence Islamic art and vice versa. This exposition looks at one direction, no big deal.
FYI says
islamic architecture is nice.
A shame it is dedicated to a pagan Arab god LAH{“The BEST of deceivers” k3:54}
A god who gets Astronomy, the Anatomy and Physiology behind human reproductive Biology and the religion of Moses wrong
{koran 18:86,koran 86:6-7}
Still,at least if you google buraq you can see muhammed’s WINGED FLYING HORSE WITH A WOMAN’S HEAD AND A PEACOCK TAIL and muhammed himself depicted which shows that once upon a time it was ok to draw muhammed.
I like buraq:but in koran 17.1,muhammed’s flight to Jeruslaem from mecca to visit that mosque that didn’t exist in mo’s time?That’s obviously made-up..
Angemon says
“islamic architecture is nice.”
Well, it was “borrowed” from previous cultures, so…
lebel says
All art and all science is influenced by other art and science, that’s how the world works. Eventually a distinct art emerges. In Islamic architecture that can be the intricate geometric patterns and Arabic calligraphy.
But yeah, I know how difficult it must be to accept that something, anything not evil can come out of Islam, That is what hatred does. It does not allow for objectivity.
Angemon says
Look, someone is not praising islam! Quickly, lebel and his obfuscations to the rescue!!!! Uh-oh – you almost went two posts without accusing someone of hatred. Are you feeling all right?
Angemon says
“that is what hatred does. It does not allow for objectivity.”
Hilarious coming from you, who, in a topic where Mr. Spencer’s opening statement was:
posted:
Tsk tsk… And your notion that geometric patters or Arab calligraphy are islamic inventions? You should be laughed at all the way to the mental ward.
P.S.: Are you one of those people who thinks that everything build in an islamic nation is “islamic architecture”?
gravenimage says
Yes, all art is influenced by other art–but there is little art in Islam.
The main influence of Western art on Islam was in Mosque architecture. I had a book as a child about Islamic architecture–and it had a drawing of Hagia Sophia on the cover–a Christian cathedral seized by Muslim conquerors. Her great Christian mosaics were plastered over or torn out.
In fact, the major effect that Islam has had on Western art was in destroying it when ever they had the chance.
gravenimage says
The only work that most would really consider art in the Islamic world was that influenced by pre-Islamic figurative traditions in Anatolia, Persia, and India.
Most well-known are the “Mughal miniatures”–including that famous image of the “Prophet” Muhammed on Buraq. It is notable that there is *very* little public art in Islam, because art was always considered un-Islamic. So most art was intended for personal use, where it could be hidden from the mob.
Even so, the period of creation for most of this art survived only a short period before it was stamped out.
CRUSADER says
GI
You might be fascinating by this Islamic Art center in the US:
http://www.ddfia.org/
gravenimage says
CRUSADER, I can’t open this link now on my old computer. I should be back up and running later this week and will check it out then.
CRUSADER says
Islam is a delusion.
Isntlam says
The Parthenon with it’s great frieze was completed in 438 BC. That’s a thousand years before Muhammad was born.
Isntlam says
…and the frieze had to be rescued by Lord Elgin from the Turks who were shooting at it.
CRUSADER says
Exactly so!
Efharisto (Ευχαριστώ) !
Pet Charles says
What I often find interesting about headlines like the ones put out by the British Museum, is they NEVER do an exhibit on what influenced so called Islamic art. It is almost as if before Islam there was nothing in the world. There was no art, no science, no kind of enlightenment whatsoever. They would have us believe that a group of people left the desert with all this art and culture and went into other lands and brought that culture with them. Yet no archaeological digs can find one iota of the art and culture in the place where Islam originated!!
CRUSADER says
Islam is a fabrication.
It imitates and then it rritates.
CRUSADER says
Irritation of Islam
gravenimage says
British Museum to host special exhibition, “Inspired by the East: How the Islamic World Influenced Western Art”
…………………………….
I have a degree in Art History. Islamic art pretty much consists of calligraphy, tile work, and some aspects of architecture–there is little else that it allowed. None of this had much effect on Western art.
They may also be reffing to “Orientalist” art from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century–but this was just part of the romantic Western movement’s interest in primitive culture, and had no more to do with Islam per se than it did with work featuring Native Americans, wild landscapes, or the past. Certainly, the technique of this work is entirely Western.
ntesdorf says
The British Museum will not host an exhibition on how ‘Western art influenced the Islamic World’ as this would be seen as Cultural Appropriation This would reflect negatively on Islam and thus is banned by British Sharia Law.
tim gallagher says
I don’t doubt that some Muslims produced some pretty decent art. Probably every culture has done. None of this stuff, none of these exhibitions, etc, influence what I feel about how evil Islam is and what a curse it has been for humanity. The 270 million people it has slaughtered and all the oppression, rapes, etc, are what matter. Islam gives most people an appalling life. I always think what matters is how decent and pleasant a life an ideology allows most people to live, far more than whether it produced some good art or science or whatever. Like other commenters, I do smell a rat. It reeks of political correctness and of the establishment trying to show how wonderful Islam has been for the world because it produced some decent art. Yeah, right, that makes up for all the people it has slaughtered and all the lives it has blighted.
sheliak says
Hope the exhibit includes references to the destruction of world heritage sites by the Taliban and ISIS and the wholesale looting and destruction of artifacts from museums in Egypt by the muslim brotherhood.
gravenimage says
+1
sidney penny says
At least the Museum is not doing the following exhiibitions,.on science or inventions
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/07/the-myth-of-islamic-science
“The notion of a golden age of Islamic learning is a myth created to counter the current sorry state of intellectual life in the Islamic world.” Indeed so. A provocative perspective from India: “The Myth of Islamic Science,
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/08/pamela-geller-1001-pieces-of-islamic-supremacist-propaganda-fabricated-exhibit-comes-to-dc
The bottom line: the inventions and discoveries attributed to the
Muslim world were actually stolen from conquered peoples. The 1001
Muslim Inventions exhibit is not history, it is propaganda, and the
foolish infidels keep lining up enthusiastically for more.
wtd says
UK’s ROTHERHAM Council Tell Grooming Gang Victims To Add Rapist’s Names To Birth Certificates So They ‘Have Parental Rights’
https://twitter.com/KMGVictoria/status/1158484935012835328
Georg says
Maybe the exhibit will be all of Bosch Fawstin’s depictions of Muhammed.
jca reid says
Islamic Art influencing Western Art = Total & Complete Myth! Pure BS. After all…. Art isn’t really permitted under Islamic Law. As for Zak et al promoting the Anti-West Line…. Hitler was influenced by Islam & in particular, the Grand Mufti of Palestine to put into action “The Final Solution” against the Jews. Initially, all the Nazis wanted to do was ship them all to Madagascar! This inane Propaganda pushed out by islamists is staggering & people fall for it. Islam IS a Desert Nazi political ideology thought up by a Bandit Arab “Trader/Nomad” to get his own way in terms of wealth, slaves & power, using “God” as an excuse.
tim gallagher says
Well said, jca reid. I think your last sentence is a good summary of what islam is. And that people actually fall for the Muslim propaganda also amazes me.
Robert_k says
BTW, didn’t Hitler get rid of all decadent art, and Goebell’s burn all decadent books as the Arabs burned down the Library of Alexandria?
Robert_k says
Not just the arts but from mathematics (the Zero, Algebra) to Medicine ( Drinking Camel Urine, Ajwah dates as remedy to all poisons), tto Astronomy (the sun setting in a muddy pool, shooting stars are Allah’s missiles for the Jinn) – there has been no area untouched by Islam.
Where would we be without it?