The Islamic New Year marks the first day of Muharram, a sacred month of prayer and annual...
Islam
Knowing the historical contributions of Islam and its influence on other faiths can help counter many assumptions...
There are five pillars – or basic tenets – of Islamic faith. Each of these pillars is...
This luxurious and exquisite silk fabric was woven in Iran during the 16th century reign of the...
Exploring how Islamic faith and culture influenced West African culture. Introduction During the 7th century, the religion...
Islamic literature shows how Muslims used textual imagery to give a vivid picture of their prophet. Introduction...
Preserved in the language of Arabic, the Qur’an is Islam’s sacred text. Introduction The Qur’an, the sacred...
Abrahamic views of poverty as a curse and poverty as a blessing – and their interrelated history...
They improved ways of doing things that influenced the Scientific Revolution in Europe centuries later. Introduction In...
Exploring how the Islamic faith quickly spread throughout Arabia and beyond. Introduction Muhammad was born around 570...
The rebellious Arabian tribes declared that their pact with Muhammad was personal and that they felt no...
From magic bowls to holy shirts, Muslim cultures used various devices to protect the user from harm...
Looking at how people thought about science and religion in the past can inform the contemporary world’s...
Islamic medicine was built on tradition, chiefly the theoretical and practical knowledge developed in Greece and Rome....
The caliphate soon became a hereditary institute when the dynastic system of rule was introduced to the...
What started as a feeble group of followers soon turned into an empire. By Syed Muhammad KhanHistorian...
In the ancient world, the concept of monotheism as we understand it today did not exist; all...
The glory of the Umayyads was not to last. Introduction The Dome of the Rock. The Great...
An introduction and prologue for the first campaigns against Sicily and the relations between both Sicily and...
Since its beginnings in the Arabia of the 7th century CE, the religion of Muhammad the prophet...
Charles V blamed the revolt on their radical ideology rather than the harsh realities of living a...
In the 17th century, early modern European medical theory had an impact upon Islamic medicine through the...
During the European Enlightenment, a number of authors presented Muhammad as an anticlerical hero. Publishing the Quran...
The history of biology, built upon the thoroughness and insight of Aristotle and Galen, passed onto the...
An overview of the Arab-Islamic reception and development of Hellenistic science. Abstract This article is an overview...
The Reconquest set the scene for the rise of Spain and the end of Islamic rule on...
The inter-marriage of Muslim families and the mingling with Christianity provides us with an interesting back story...
The subtext is almost always that the Western paradigm of modernity. A single model of modernity? The...
Examining the centuries’-old sectarian Shia-Sunni divide. Tensions between Sunnis and Shias have been flaring up, with several...
Analyzing an eighteenth-century automaton from South Asia in the image of a tiger mauling a British soldier....