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1001 inventions: Exhibit helps people discover Muslim heritage throughout our world

Source : Barbara Ferguson | Arab News
New York | 04 Apr 2011

The story of “One Thousand and One Nights” helped shape a certain stereotypical understanding of Islamic culture here in the West. Now an exhibition called “1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World,” which opened in December 2010 in New York Hall of Science, focuses on the reality — the period when Muslims’ sphere of influence stretched from China to Spain for hundreds of centuries.

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