Outside Reading #20

I know that I have no excuse for this, but I didn't read anything. I am in the middle of writing my world history paper and just remembered I had a blog post to do. I decided that outside reading can be replaced with a little outside writing. At the moment I am writing about how Islam has influenced our culture today, and my topic is Islamic Art. I discovered that Muslim artists invented Calligraphy, which is a artistic for of writing. The Islamic religion forbade the use of animals or significant human figures in their art, so instead they wrote the scripture of the Qur'an in their art. My thought is that this is sort of like all the Christian Bible verses that are on book marks, coffee mugs, and T-shirts that we see everywhere today. It would make sense that we might have gotten the idea from them. This is only one example in my paper on how Muslim art influences today's society. I've still got a lot more to write about!!