Who Was Leonardo Da Vinci, Anyway?
If you’ve seen all the fuss surrounding the film The Da Vinci Code, you might be wondering just who or what this Da Vinci actually was. Leonardo Da Vinci features prominently in Dan Brown’s novel on which the film was based. In the book and film, Da Vinci’s paintings contain some of the clues that lead to solving the book’s central mystery. The characters and the storyline revolve around an imaginary coded cipher, supposed to have been invented by Da Vinci himself. In discussing Da Vinci the man, though, we can learn something important about Islam that is often ignored in the West.
