The Islamic New Year marks the first day of Muharram, a sacred month of prayer and annual...
Muslim
There are five pillars – or basic tenets – of Islamic faith. Each of these pillars is...
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 Delhi Sultanate, which lasted from 1206 to 1526, is known as a period of cultural intermixing....
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...
Charles V blamed the revolt on their radical ideology rather than the harsh realities of living a...
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...
The region had been freed from lingering influences of the Byzantine empire and was left to develop...
Examining the inter-relationship of religion and culture in the time period of medieval Spain known as the...