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

In Iran, the clerics had a uniquely powerful position compared to their contemporaries in the Ottoman Empire. According to Merhavy, this was because in Shi'ite Islam, clerics were far more ...

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 ...

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 ...