"What's quite unique to Iran is that Iran retained its civilization and its language, while other languages made way for ...

Muslim scientists had developed their own perceptions, meanings and worldviews of knowledge that differ drastically from ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...

The Islamic Empire was a time of great innovation, especially in maths, science, and medicine. Arab mathematicians helped to popularise the Indian number system, with its symbol for zero ...

virtual empire. Perhaps, then, the rise of Islam should be read "in reverse"—not as a movement from the religious to the geopolitical, but rather from the geopolitical to the religious.

Blair,S., and J. Bloom. 1994. The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250-1800. Pelican History of Art. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. Bloom, J., and S ...

March 3, 2025, marks the 101th anniversary of the fall of the Khilafah, when the Ottoman Caliphate was officially abolished ...

The Byzantine Empire made remarkable contributions to medicine and science, even thouth they are not widely known.

Several of her books were written with her husband and co-holder of the Calderwood Chair, Jonathan Bloom, with whom she served as artistic consultant to the three-hour documentary Islam: Empire of ...