What can Indian and Pakistani press archives, government records and memoirs tell us about the Middle East of the 1920s and ...

The series was not broadcast on any Egyptian TV channels or platforms, only on MBC and Shahed. It was known that the director ...

Politically, King Fouad seemed to be inheriting the status of the head of the biggest Sunni state in the region after the Ottoman caliphate, which made him side with Al-Azhar. Since the 1960s ...

Readers may be surprised to learn, for example, that the last Ottoman Caliph, who was expelled from Turkey in 1924, had received the warmest farewell from an Ottoman Jew. It is a story related in ...

If history is destined to be revisited, the young might be best placed to do so. “Our idea of undivided India is basically ...

How did Muhammad Ali Jinnah go from being a secular young man appalled by Indian interference in the Ottoman Caliphate crisis to the moving spirit behind the demand for Pakistan – a new Islamic ...

Over the next few years, strong ties developed between Ottoman royals and wealthy potentates ... financially supported the exiled last caliph, Abdulmecid II, who lived on the French Riviera.

For a small country, Kosovo sent a lot of citizens to the caliphate. The survivors came back to prison, reintegration ...

The history of the Temple Mount is one of perpetual friction. It was the site of Solomon’s first Temple, later destroyed by ...

The tension between past empires and modern nationalism remains a challenge, but as the world evolves, this challenge can be ...

By: Lina Awad The mosque is the focal point for Muslims to pray, seek knowledge, receive guidance, and engage in religious an ...