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Conclusion

To sum up, the body of representation and misrepresentation of Muhammad and the Qur’ān is treated as a valuable indication of the Elizabethan attitudes. When Marlowe omits and asserts deliberate information from the Qur’ān, he might have rejected accurate knowledge about God, or shown a preference for the absurd. Marlowe’s fantasies are embodied with ignorance or partial ignorance of Islam. In fact, the use of the authentic information would have contributed towards more unawareness of Islam.
English writers remain sceptical in their impression over a possible peaceful contact with the East up to the end of the life on earth. Rudyard Kipling (1865– 1937) in The Ballad of East and West, asserts that the East cannot understand the West at all. This pessimism holds true for centuries since the colonial West wants to be the superior:
Oh, East is East, West is West and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand present by at God’s great Judgment Seat,
But there is neither East nor West, Border, Nor Bread, nor Birth, When two Strong men Stand face to face, Though They come from the ends of earth (1892:1–5).
Many important Western academic and opinion-makers have articulated the West’s attitude towards Islam. In 1993 a controversial article, “The Clash of Civilizations”, Samuel Huntington noted that a “clash of civilizations will dominate global politics” (1993:22). Huntington, like many others today, portrayed Islam and the West as age-old enemies. He claims that “Conflict along the fault line between Western and Islamic civilizations has been going on for 1300 years” (1993:31).
Muslims believe in the Qur’ān as a divine guidance. Marlowe degrades the Qur’ān and makes Tamburlaine misrepresent the Prophet Muhammad and burn it. In his 1821 play, Almansur, the German writer Heinrich Heine refers to the burning of the Qur’an, during the Spanish Inquisition. He writes, “Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings”.¹¹ The public Qur’ānburning attempt in Florida by minor churches in 2010 recalls the scene of the historical Western mindset. For educated people and politicians, it was a hard task to convince the crazy or religious people and kids to stop burning copies of the Qur’ān publicly. It only leads to trouble. Fictional characters, of course, have their way of influencing real people.
In the spring of 2011, Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Church in Gainesville, said that the Qur’ān inspired violence and therefore by having a mock trial, Jones, the judge and his jury found that the Qur’ān was guilty and must be burnt. This burning of the Islamic book seems to be the same as conducted by Tamburlaine in the sixteenth century. It seems that the public burning of the Qur’ān will be repeated in history as long as the West believes that the East is inferior. Some of Tamburlaine’s admirers are so thrilled by him that they set out to be little Tamburlaine themselves. However, if Tamburlaine was a gigantic hero by killing so many Asians to prevail, many dictators made bloody massacre of their innocent citizens.
The spread of accurate information about Qur’ān and Muhammad helps to understand Islam and Muslims. Western researchers need to understand Islam from its own sources. Given the 1400-year Christian-Muslim legacy of an almost unbroken sequence of misunderstanding and misrepresentation, the task of simply being honest with each other and about each other’s faith is itself a monumental challenge.