From Arabia to Southern Europe, through the Levant, Egypt and North Africa, eastward to Transoxiana, Sindh and India, Muslim ...

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.

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 ...

Battuta was one of the most prolific explorers of the Islamic Golden Age around the 7th-13th centuries, marked by flourishing ...

Islam did not merely encourage education, it institutionalised it — Mosques doubled as schools, scholars were revered and ...

They who while living had mingled their interests, fortunes, counsels, nay rather souls,” reads their tombstone, “might in ...

Oman is a land of striking contrasts—towering mountains, sprawling deserts, lush wadis. While many are familiar with its ...

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 Was Just an Accident," by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was barred from filmmaking for 15 years, won the Palme d'Or ...

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

During the Islamic Golden age, scholars such as al-Masudi and Ibn Khaldun referred in Arabic to Khalij Fars (Persian Gulf), while Estakhri and al-Muqaddasi used Bahr Fars (Persian Sea).

Revenge thriller "It Was Just An Accident" by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was barred from filmmaking for 15 years by ...