“Images are very important to a civilization, culture and religion because as humans people wish to have a good image. There is nothing essentially good or bad in images themselves, but only in what they portray, evoke, or justify (Siddiqi 1).” It comes as no surprise, then, that people today doubt the fact that the Arab Empire was once amongst the world’s greatest civilizations. To reduce the average Arab to the images that define him …showed first 75 words of 735 total…

…showed last 75 words of 735 total…await him at heaven’s gates. Images such as these portray evil, evoke hatred, and justify prejudice. Yet they continue to thrive; the miniscule kernels of truth that bore these irresponsible fabrications offer subsistence, nourishment. Learning about the origins of a people and the subsequent progression of a civilization is one thing, but it is clear that without contextual understanding, this information can only be exploited and reworked into oversimplified but easy to swallow impressions.