It is now a hub for transferring funds and drawing recruits from across Africa and elsewhere ... was acting as the network’s ...

It is now a hub for transferring funds and drawing recruits from across Africa and elsewhere ... was acting as the network's ...

7. Islamic History Islamic history covers the life of the Prophet Muhammad, the era of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, the rise of major Islamic empires (Umayyad, Abbasid, Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal), and ...

The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.

Al-Farabi, profoundly inspired by the works of Aristotle and Plato, endeavours to forge a political philosophy that ...

It is now a hub for transferring funds and drawing recruits from across Africa ... was acting as the network’s overall leader, or caliph, though other analysts have suggested he holds a top ...

A renowned poet, he belonged to the dynasty of Umayyad caliphs that the extremist Islamic ... However, Islamic extremist fundamentalist movements, drawing from the Wahhabi tradition, have adopted ...

Every other day it seems like another batch of barrel bomb-flipping butchers is getting together over finger sandwiches in the banquet room of a different five-star hotel to draw up plans for ...

One group that has emerged as one of the most active affiliates is IS-Khorasan Province (ISKP), which has expanded its operations beyond Afghanistan and is drawing militants from Central Asian ...

Momin Khan Momin, one of the greatest Urdu poets, is also buried inside the same compound. Other prominent graves include that of freedom fighter and Islamic scholar Maulana Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi, ...

The caliph Al-Ma’mun of the Abbasid dynasty in Baghdad put Hunayn ibn Ishaq in charge of the translators at the city’s famous Bayt al-Hikma, or House of Wisdom. By the 900s, drawing from a ...