When Muslims ruled the civilised world (Hamid Dabashi, Al Jazeera)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has just opened a magnificent exhibition of Islamic art of the Seljuqid period. That sentence would or should probably cause a double-take for right at the artistic and intellectual heartland of this beleaguered empire, Americans are celebrating one of the highest summits of Islamic civilization at a time when US Muslims are subject to one of the ugliest phases of Islamophobia in their recent history

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/muslims-ruled-civilised-world-160508111252853.html