William Shakespeare’s immortal play, “Othello,” is an
allegorical representation of the Moorish insemination of the “Italian
Renaissance” through learning and refined culture.
Though depicted as a thwarted, tragic love story between
heroic, noble Othello, and the lovely, adoring, Desdemona, Shakespeare really
is tracing the eschatological transmission of knowledge such as mathematics,
chemistry and astronomy from Muslim civilization to Europe, which was enmeshed
in a centuries-long “Dark Ages.”
