"A labor of admirable erudition, this book by Professor Khaled El-Rouayheb establishes a new standard for the intellectual history of Islam in general and for Ottoman intellectual history in ...

Certainly, there is a long history of the translation and explication of the Qur’an in the region, although it is important to note that in the Islamic tradition a translation, being the result of ...

The birth of Jesus Christ - a seminal biblical event - has been the subject of many paintings by Western artists, who have ...

Muslim beliefs have inspired charitable giving for over fourteen centuries, yet Islamic history has rarely been examined from this perspective. In Charity in Islamic Societies, Amy Singer explains the ...

It’s also possibly the most common last words in human history, as people often repeat the prayer as they pass away. The Shahada sums up two of the main tenets of Islam. First, there’s ...

Ghazan Khan converted the dynasty to Islam. Their center of rule was in Azerbaijan, the northwestern province, which had seldom played an important role in earlier Iranian history. Eastern Iran, which ...

The Alhambra in Granada, Spain, is a jewel of Islamic history and a masterpiece of Moorish architecture. This vast fortress ...

Saint Louis Art Museum Photograph by Bridgeman/ACI A specialist in Islamic History, Víctor Pallejà de Bustinza is an Associate Professor of Humanities at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona ...

Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and technology in Islam is a one-of-a-kind global institution, featuring recreated replicas of inventions from the Islamic Golden Age. The museum showcases ...

The Muslim community in Northeast Ohio has deep roots that date back to the 1920s, with newer mosques continuing to shape the ...

Al-Khwarizmi created writings on decimals, fractions and algebra. This great era in Islamic history is known as The Abbasid Dynasty. It was a time of growth and change and the round city of ...