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Flying Carpets Lost in a Desert Storm  - the Changed Perception of  Islam in Europe. By Durriya Kazi, Head of Department of Visual Studies, University of Karachi. Seminar: “Islam in Europe” November 16-17, 2011. Area Study Centre For Europe, University of Karachi in collaboration with Hanns Seidel Foundation, Islamabad ABSTRACT Like Sheherazade of One Thousand and One Nights , today scholars of a besieged Islam recount tales of glory to appease an angry West. One can poeticize that the 1001 nights have changed into 1001 years, a millennium of interaction, both in the sharing of knowledge and the exchange of conflict between Islam and Europe. The impact of Islam on European Culture, and of Europe on Islamic Culture, will be the focus of this paper. Beginning with the contribution of Islamic scholarship to the development of the Sciences, Art and Architecture and leading to the European Renaissance, the paper will explore the changing perception of Islam from