The weaponization of history at the hands of political parties, rather than leaving it to people in the academic front to have different opinions is what muddies the water, Sampath said at the Rising ...

Founded by Babur in 1526, the empire at its height covered an area that stretched from modern-day Afghanistan in central Asia ...

Born from revolution, the Abbasids didn’t just seize power—they reshaped the Islamic world and sparked a golden age of science, culture, and conquest.

A climate in which science, art, and culture flourished in the Golden Age of Islam and the conditions that foretold the Age’s ...

Here are some important dates in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis in 2013 and died on Monday.

and martyrs of the Islamic conquests. The cemetery extends from Bab al-Asbat to the end of the eastern wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, reaching the Umayyad palaces area south of the mosque.

The area was named during the Islamic conquest of Spain after Tarif ibn Malik, a commander who raided the southern coastline in 710 under the orders of Umayyad commander Tariq ibn Ziyad.

Such scholars sometimes landed in Egypt on their way to the pilgrimage in Mecca, while others came during the Islamic conquest and after it. Many of these scholars and religious devotees ...