Abstract
This paper is an attempt to find out the historical roots, which
gave birth to tarnished depiction of Muslim world in Holly wood
movies. Hollywood movies are offering a consistent stereo typical
image and vilified/abusive picture of Arab Muslim across the
decades. It is necessary to find out the historical roots which gave
birth to discolored depiction of Muslim world in Hollywood
movies. Researcher has adopted qualitative method of descriptive
review of Hollywood. After a descriptive review of Hollywood It
is summed up that although all races may be depicted in negative
way one time or another, but some races specifically Arabs and
Arab-Americans are all time victims of indecent depiction.
History depicts number of apple of discords i.e crusades of Islam
and Christianity, role of colonolisataion, post II world war
scenario and Neo-Colonialism; shifting of power-pillars from
Europe to America in terms of misrepresentation of Islam and
Muslims
Dr. Abida Noureen, Dr. Shabana Nazar , Nayyer Mustafa. (2020) Historical Misrepresentation of Islam and Muslim: A Descriptive Review of Hollywood, Pakistan Social Sciences Review, Volume 4, Issue 2.
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