Around seven times larger than the White House, Uzbekistan’s Center for Islamic Civilization is a monument of epic ...

Historians have traced myths about the Black Death’s rapid journey across Asia to one 14th-century poem by Ibn al-Wardi. His imaginative maqāma, never meant as fact, became the foundation for ...

While scholars like Copernicus undoubtedly learned from the Islamic world, this was a two-way street, stressed Morrison.

O ath-taking signifies a solemn pledge or appeal to divinity. It has long been a familiar expression of truth, loyalty and ...

Many, perhaps most, societies have tended to hold medical practitioners in awe, sometimes hoping against hope, given their historically often-limited scientific knowledge, that the right doctor called ...

Throughout the centuries, certain civilizations have illuminated the world with their genius. They have revolutionized thought, redefined art, invented political or scientific systems ahead of their ...

We speak to Ghada Karmi about her latest book ’Murjana’, the story of a Sunni Caliph, a Shia woman, and the sectarian fury ...

Is there any difference between medieval blood libels inspired by the Church and fabricated claims of Israeli genocide ...

The neglect of women’s health, the health of every second person, is baked into medical science, writes Jennifer Horgan ...

One bucket at a time, Palestinian workers cleared sand and crumbling mortar from the remains of an former medieval fortress turned museum in Gaza City, damaged by two years of fighting between Israel ...

A new study in the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies shows that a widely accepted belief about the Black Death’s rapid spread from Central Asia to the Mediterranean is not based on records or ...

Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions By David Motadel In 1993, ...