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Fake Islamic art and illustrations are meant to fool you into thinking Muslims from the medieval period were scholars and scientists -- when they weren't.
The photo right is a book cover of Islamic “scholars” in medieval Middle Eastern dress. Two are looking at the sky through telescopes. The medieval period was from 400s to the 1400s. Galileo was born in 1564 in Italy. He was the first to use a telescope for the purpose of astronomy in 1609. And even then, it took decades for this invention to be reproduced and travel out of Europe to the Middle East. Additionally, illustrations depicting telescopes, especially on or in books, did not appear until centuries later. Another man in this alleged Islamic illustration is writing notes while his hand is on a globe – an instrument that was rarely drawn.(1) Additionally, there is a quill in this Muslim's hand when reeds were what authentic art would have depicted.(1) There is a massive movement to glorify Islam. |
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Don't fall for it!
The most disturbing thing about this is that this fake attribution to Muslims, making one believe early Muslims were scientists and scholars, has become rampant. These fakes depicting Islamic science are beginning to be found in libraries and history books.
The photo shown below of a tooth worm claims to be illustrating the Ottoman conception of dental cavities. But this painting was done by what’s called “over-painting.” The underlying text was done in the 1700s, but painted over in the 1900s.
The other example below shows a physician treating a man with smallpox. These paintings and illustrations are fakes, claiming Muslims to be scientists and doctors—and thus glorifying achievements they did not achieve.
These types of forgeries can now be found in museums and were mostly created during the past 20 years. These fakes are “intended to represent scientific traditions of the Islamic world.”(1)
These fake paintings and illustrations are glorifying a history of Muslims that does not exist. Textbooks and museums are publishing “proof of Muslim scientific achievements” but they are fakes. Some of the fake illustrations are painted on ripped-out pages of centuries-old manuscripts to give falsity to their history.
Muslims are falsifying history. Don't fall for it!
See also: Mecca and Islamic History is a Lie
The photo shown below of a tooth worm claims to be illustrating the Ottoman conception of dental cavities. But this painting was done by what’s called “over-painting.” The underlying text was done in the 1700s, but painted over in the 1900s.
The other example below shows a physician treating a man with smallpox. These paintings and illustrations are fakes, claiming Muslims to be scientists and doctors—and thus glorifying achievements they did not achieve.
These types of forgeries can now be found in museums and were mostly created during the past 20 years. These fakes are “intended to represent scientific traditions of the Islamic world.”(1)
These fake paintings and illustrations are glorifying a history of Muslims that does not exist. Textbooks and museums are publishing “proof of Muslim scientific achievements” but they are fakes. Some of the fake illustrations are painted on ripped-out pages of centuries-old manuscripts to give falsity to their history.
Muslims are falsifying history. Don't fall for it!
See also: Mecca and Islamic History is a Lie
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References
(1) Shafir, Nir. Forging Islamic science. Aeon: September 11, 2018. https://aeon.co/essays/why-fake-miniatures-depicting-islamic-science-are-everywhere
(1) Shafir, Nir. Forging Islamic science. Aeon: September 11, 2018. https://aeon.co/essays/why-fake-miniatures-depicting-islamic-science-are-everywhere