A Tale of Two Cities In the grand historical narrative of the Islamic world, two cities have stood out as dominant forces: ...

Islamic Heritage sites are distributed all over the world, even in the most unexpected places. Traveling and visiting the ...

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Babylon in the third millennium B.C. Traditional ...

A New History from Muhammad to the Present’ (Princeton Univ., May), the historian chronicles the religion’s 1,400-year evolution through profiles of figures who showcase its diversity.

Al-Khwarizmi created writings on decimals, fractions and algebra. This great era in Islamic history is known as The Abbasid Dynasty. It was a time of growth and change and the round city of ...

This is not the first time MBC Saudi Arabia has faced protests for producing a TV series about controversial events in Islamic history, especially those that stir divisions between Shia and Sunni ...