Summer in Morocco means enjoying quick savory foods and drinks: fried beignets by the beach, fish tagines, and barbecues with ...

To understand Islam, we need to understand its major divisions, Sunni and Shiite. One way to start is to grasp the dueling ...

Explore the rapid expansion of Islamic empires from Arabia to Europe, Africa, and Asia between the 7th and 9th centuries, and their lasting impact on global history.

Lubna of Cordoba, born a slave in 929, became a renowned mathematician, poet, and scholar under Caliph Al-Hakam II. She expanded the Royal Library, taught children, and broke stereotypes, proving ...

Born in 1165 in Murcia, Al-Andalus, in modern-day Spain, his early years were spent in Seville, a flourishing intellectual centre, which was formative in his later philosophical and mystical pursuits.

The caliph’s palace sits atop, and the ruins flow down to Al-Andalus’s once bustling administrative and religious centres. A palpable sense of anticipation remains as more than 90 per cent of ...

Islam’s expansion led to an explosion in Córdoba’s population and, when the city’s rulers had outgrown it, the construction of Medina Azahara, the so-called “shining city”. Built in the 10th century ...

An inscription crowning the pyxis in a Kufic script wishes a happy destiny to Prince Al-Mughira, half-brother of Caliph al-Hakam II, the second Umayyad caliph of Cordoba, who ruled from the years 961 ...

For many years al-Andalus was ruled by the Umayyads the Arab dynasty that, until 750, controlled much of the Muslim world. The Umayyads administered al-Andalus first as an emirate and, from the 10th ...

The taifas’ kingdoms in the year 1031. Credit: Wilfredor / Wikimedia Commons The fact is that Mujahid took advantage of that confusing period, known as the Fitna of al-Andalus (the civil war that ...