In this captivating journey through history, explore how the Umayyad Caliphate expanded its empire to achieve one of the ...

Discover the vast expanse of the Umayyad Caliphate in this captivating journey through history. Learn how this powerful ...

The governments of the caliphs had also set up systems which ensured that Arab-Muslim government lasted after the initial conquests were over. The caliphs and the idea of caliphate played a key role ...

The history of caliphates in the Muslim community has been vast, but the groups have never provided solutions to Muslim politics, according to Douglas Streusand, a professor of international relations ...

On June 29, 2014, which coincided with the first day of Ramadan, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) declared the restoration of the caliphate. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a shadowy figure with a $10 ...

For as long as humans have lived in settled communities, some groups have sought to assert dominance over others, and through history the biggest empires grew to cover millions of square miles. But ...

The crown prince's goal is to cut Iran down to size and make it accept Saudi hegemony in the Persian Gulf. In 680 CE, less than fifty years after the death of Prophet Muhammad, an army of over thirty ...

Ali Humayun Akhtar describes the Middle Ages as a highly interconnected period. In the centuries leading up to the Renaissance, Christians, Jews, and Muslims traveled widely, exchanging both goods and ...

The mosque-cathedral of Córdoba in southern Spain is one of the great Rorschach tests of medieval architecture. Like the ink blots that psychologists use to divine unconscious thoughts, we tend to see ...