Alexander the Great, known as Iskandar or Dhul-Qarnayn in Islam, holds a unique place in Islamic history as a figure with ...

Alcohol can be found in every culture, civilization and country. That’s why the subject — and substance — fascinates University of Delaware history professor Rudi Matthee, author of Angels Tapping at ...

The Muslim community spread through the Middle East through conquest, and the resulting growth of the Muslim state provided the ground in which the recently revealed faith could take root and flourish ...

Illustration of Fatimah Al-Fihri. Paintings of Middle Eastern Women by Jan Frans Portaels (1818-1895). Belgian School. TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - There are a number of women who have had a big influence on ...

Islam in the "New World": the historical setting -- Islamic beliefs and practice in colonial and antebellum America -- Conflating race, religion and progress: social change, national identity, and ...

Some of the key arguments of modern Islamism were formed earlier than imagined, in the final years of the Ottoman polity From 1908 the trajectory of what we now call political Islam, or Islamism, can ...