Days after the Sambhal district administration denied permission to conduct the annual Neja Mela — a traditional annual fair ...

Scientists from the University of Sharjah and the Warburg Institute are poring over the writings of an 11th-century Arab-Muslim polymath to demonstrate their impact on the development of optical ...

Discover the largest Muslim country by population, where hundreds of millions of Muslims call it home and live with its religious influence.

Muslim doctors were also pharmacists who produced ... A romanticized engraving of the 11th-century scholar Avicenna, who provided a strong theoretical framework for medicine.

Islam arrived in North Africa (the Maghreb) just seven years after the death of the Prophet Mohammed in 639. The 4,000 strong Arab invading forces came from Mecca under the leadership of the ...

Until the first half of the 13th century the kingdom of Ghana was a key trading partner with the Muslim North. WEST AFRICAN KINGDOMS: THE KINGDOM OF GHANA The kings of Ghana in the 11th century ...