From grand cities to groundbreaking discoveries, the Abbasid Caliphate transformed the Islamic world. Yet, even the most ...

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia ... ACI A specialist in Islamic History, Víctor Pallejà ...

This great era in Islamic history is known as The Abbasid Dynasty ... to translate books from ancient Greek. The Arabs developed this knowledge at a time when it had been lost in Europe, due ...

Is it possible for a book to feel both timely and like a relic from a different era? In the case of The Islamic Moses, by the Turkish writer Mustafa Akyol, the answer is yes. The book was completed ...

Archaeologists have discovered fragments of an Islamic dwelling dating ... Read also: Ancient city uncovered beneath Saudi oasis reshapes history Mammoth bones unearthed in Austrian vineyard ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the archaeological site was ravaged by Islamic State (IS ... is the heritage of all of humanity, a history that goes back 3,000 years.” ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the archaeological site was ravaged by Islamic State (IS) fighters after they seized large areas of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014.