"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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In competing to establish an Islamic caliphate based on Sharia law ... have only increased his appetite to expand his empire, which also includes minimizing the Kurdish threat of autonomy in ...