Born from revolution, the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads and built a dynasty that led the Islamic world into a golden age of science, culture, and power.

This statue covered in gold leaf and semiprecious stones may have been used in ancient Mesopotamian sunrise rituals.

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Physicists at CERN have achieved the ancient dream of turning other metals into gold, and they did it with physics, not magic ...

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At an explosive sentencing hearing, Mohammed Chhipa denounced the government, and his brother was subdued and arrested by U.S. marshals.

During Rome’s golden age, one set of laws governed a gigantic ... Mr Norberg deftly punctures popular misconceptions. The zealots of Islamic State revere the Abbasid caliphate, but would have ...

It has come to be remembered as Islam’s ‘golden age’. This is the rise and fall of the Abbasid Caliphate. Gabbard fires top National Intelligence Council officials 11 Expensive Steakhouse ...

In Dubai especially, we are witnessing a resurgence in Arab leadership in scientific discovery that could herald the dawn of a new Islamic Golden Age, akin to the period between the eighth and 13 th ...

The Muslims rose to intellectual prominence during the 8th century, and the period up to the 13th century is rightly regarded as the golden age of Islam. However, with the changing tide ...

It also underscores the multicultural and multi-ethnic nature of the Islamic Golden Age, where contributions to Islamic knowledge and culture came from diverse backgrounds, unified by the Arabic ...

American Muslims lack mainstream organizational capacity, with most of their economic infrastructure consolidated in mosques and organizations like CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations ...