The world will not come to an end,” said the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), “ until a man from my family (Ahlulbayt) and of my name ...

Baghdad falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed and tens of thousands are slaughtered. 1542: Catherine ...

There is a perceptible Roman bias in the teaching of law, but the ancient Greeks were actually also quite influential.

Surprising, bold, and enduring… the history of eroticism in the Arab-Muslim world shines a spotlight on homosexuality and the ...

Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little ...

From grand cities to groundbreaking discoveries, the Abbasid Caliphate transformed the Islamic world. Yet, even the most ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Renovations began on St. Gregory the Illuminator Church in Baghdad, the cathedral of the Armenian Diocese ...

In Islam, the production and promotion of knowledge in Islam serves a higher purpose — it is neither a self-serving pursuit ...

The Abbasid Caliph Al-Nassir changed the Kiswa’s color to green and later to black brocade, and this has remained its color to the present day,” the Arab News report said. The Abbasid Caliphate ruled ...

The inner circle in Medina chose Abu Bakr, the Prophet’s father-in-law and one of his oldest friends and allies, as caliph (in Arabic khalifah, ‘successor’ and ‘representative’). He died two years ...

Lavin, for instance, is an archaeologist who believes she has found, uncovered by a gas explosion in Baghdad, the famed House of Wisdom built during the Abbasid period by the Caliph, Harun al-Rashid. ...

This week’s Kickstarter Roundup takes us to a French Patisserie, a Mystical-Industrial world, and asks us to look deep within ourselves. Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding and ...