Islamic Muesuem

Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization opened its doors to visitors in 1996, the museum is divided into two floors, and the galleries are in the first floor are:

• The Abu Bakr Gallery of Islamic Faith.
• The Ibn Al-Haytham Gallery of Science and Technology.

Abu Bakr gallery of Islamic Faith main theme was Quran but it also presented the five pillars of Islam as the gallery includes different part the Kiswah of the Kaba’ and rare historical manuscripts of the Quran which was written id different calligraphies and sizes.

Ibn Al-Haytham gallery of Science and technology presents the contribution of Scholar from different parts of the whole civilization as it includes inventions by Muslim scholars it the fields of;

• Medicine
• Geography.
•  Architecture.
•  Mathematics.
•  Chemistry.
• Weapons.

The second floor of the Museum contains four galleries that displays unique artifacts from different periods of Islam as it shows some weapons and pottery collected from vast areas even from the golden age of Islam.

         To begin many people in my age or even older doesn’t give the Islamic History any impotence, after taking this course and visiting an Islamic Museum for the first time. I felt that people and Specially Arabs Muslims or even Christian should reconsider thinking about reading the History of their great grandparents. People in the west look to Arabs as if they don’t have any contribution to any field but in fact Arabs are the ones who did.

        The Islamic coin was the first thing to grab my attention since the professor talked about it during the class as she questioned me in person saying (do you know what’s this?), since its printed on the Saudi Riyal and I have seen it for many times in my life and did not know what was it here is a picture of it.

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It’s known as the Islamic dinar that was issued by the Umayyad Caliph Abd Al-Malik B.Marwan in 690 A.D.

SHARJAH ISLAMIC MUSEUM ASSIGNMENT

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Submitted to:

Prof. Ghada Jayyusi‐Lehn