"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 ...

Nomads who had been enlisted to fight the Mongol hordes staked their own claim and took over, transforming the Islamic world. They created the vast Ottoman empire that expanded westward into ...

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.

Samarra Archaeological City is the site of a powerful Islamic capital city that ruled over the provinces of the Abbasid Empire extending from Tunisia to Central Asia for a century. Located on both ...

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 ...

During this period, considered the “Dark Ages” throughout Europe, arts, culture and science in the Islamic empire flourished. With their arrival in Spain, the Muslim conquerors established ...

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 ...