the Islamic world since the end of the medieval period.

  Order Description Much change has taken place in the Islamic world since the end of the medieval period. Entire continents were discovered and colonized in the western hemisphere; technology became increasingly sophisticated; population growth soared; and Europeans spread their influence across the globe. And yet, in the twenty-first century, politicians, historians, and the reading public still look to the medieval Islamic world in order to better understand the present. The questions you will answer in your essay all revolve around how they do it. What goals do they have as they start to investigate a topic? Are they interested in knowledge for its own sake? Are they looking to make a moral judgment, and if so, what is that judgment? How do they organize their findings? What kind of story do they tell? What are they thinking about the future, if they’re thinking about the future at all? To answer these questions, read the three news articles linked below and a chapter from Chase Robinson’s Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives. The essay should compare each of these sources in terms of the questions outlined above. It should quote and/or paraphrase from these sources with appropriate citations. It should have an overall argument in the introduction, topic sentences for each paragraph, and a conclusion. The articles: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/06/islam-manuscript-discovery-istanbul/531699/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/world/europe/vikings-allah-sweden.html https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-historian-debunks-viking-story-1120607