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This interactive exhibition provides a unique way for the museum visitor to become immersed in the pages of Islamic history. Visitors browse through the pages of a large book. The physical pages of the book are linked to electronic sensors which trigger multimedia presentations on a large mounted Plasma screen. When the pages are turned, animated maps are displayed illustrating how the Islamic world developed from pre-Islamic times to the present.
The following periods in the development of the Islamic world are portrayed:
- Before Islam: the Byzantine and Assamid Empires
- Birth of Islam
- Islam expands: ca 800 CE
- Islamic territories in the 9th century, lost by the 15th century
- Islamic territories in the 9th century and still Islamic by the 15th century
- Islamic territory gained from the 9th to the 16th centuries
- Trade routes on land and sea
- Islamic expansion in Africa by 1800
- Emergence of independent Islamic states from 1922 onwards
Interactive Book - Gallery
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