After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque at the heart of ...

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Discover the captivating story of Medieval Baghdad, once the shining beacon of the Islamic Golden Age, through the lens of Kings and Generals. Journey back to the early days of the Abbasid Caliphate, ...

Education course Ancient Arabic Documents Remaining in St. Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula —Valuable materials for research medieval Egyptian history— Toshimichi Matsuda Professor ...

Beneath technicolour cedarwood ceilings, maps show Moroccan empires that once encompassed nearly the entire Iberian peninsula, Tunis and Nouakchott, now the capital of Mauretania, and how the city’s ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West ...

Historic Walled Town of Cuenca Built by the Moors in a defensive position at the heart of the Caliphate of Cordoba, Cuenca is an unusually well-preserved medieval fortified city.

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the ...

Medieval Baghdad, considered the central caliphate of the Muslims and followed across many Muslim political entities, termed the ‘Islamic world’ by Tamim Ansari and the ‘Persianate world ...

The report, issued on the 10th anniversary of the June 2014 proclamation of the Islamic State caliphate – which stretched from Raqqa in central Syria to Mosul In Iraq – says ongoing operations ...

A century ago, the fledgling state of Turkey sent the last caliph Abdulmecid II into exile and consigned an Islamic institution to history ...