In his new book 'The Islamic Moses,' US-based author Mustafa Akyol turns to the Quran's focus on a shared prophet to ...

Show portraying life of first Umayyad caliph banned in Iraq over sectarian tension fears and criticised in Egypt over ...

The historian Moshe Sharon demonstrated in 2002 that the detailed descriptions of the battles of the Islamic conquests ...

But violence is also a key aspect of Islam’s inner story. Within one generation of Muhammad’s death two successive Muslim caliphs, Umar and Uthman, had been assassinated brutally by other Muslims.

⁹ Instead, he prayed outside the church, a site that later became the location of the Mosque of Umar. His next focus was the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif. Historical accounts ...

A television series about the life of the Umayyad caliph, Muawiya, titled "Mo'awey," which was banned in Iraq due to the ...

One is not born, but rather becomes a woman…her wings are cut and blamed for not knowing how to fly,” Simone de Beauvoir ...

mainly due to her political stand regarding the election of the Caliph. Fatima’s house was attacked at the instigation of Abu Bakr and Umar, who succeeded to power in Medina immediately after ...