This video explores how the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads and created one of the most influential empires in Islamic history. It covers their revolutionary origins, political rise, and the ...

When a syrian named abd al-Rahman arrived in Spain in 755, a booming Islamic empire stretched from Asia Minor to the Pyrenees. But this member of a leading Damascus family, the Umayyads, was not after ...

New discoveries are overturning long-held assumptions and revealing previously ignored complexities at the desert castle of Khirbet al-Mafjar The palace’s bathhouse boasts a carpet-like mosaic floor ...

After the fall of the Visigoths, the Umayyads swept through Iberia. But in the Asturian hills, Pelayo made a stand that lit the first fire of resistance Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, former ...

In the year 1184 CE, Andalusian traveller, geographer, and poet Abul Husayn Muhammad Ibn Ahmad ibn Jubayr visited Damascus. On entering the city, he famously said: "if paradise is on the earth then ...