DESPITE being relocated to a new town built eight kilometres away by Franco in 1971, a hodge-podge community of stubborn ...

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Following the narrative of Islam’s journey from tribal origins to world religion, scholar John Tolan offers those new to the ...

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (1817-1898) stands as one of the most influential figures in the history of modern India and a pioneering ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a Roman hospital converted into a Byzantine church in Kaunos, revealing a millennium of ...

A Muslim prayer room has been set up in the heart of the Vatican City's 500-year-old library. Islamic scholars visiting the ...

By the ninth century, influenced by the Christian idea, Islam and Judaism each had their own Antichrist figures who would ...

The Islamic Golden Age thrived as Greek thought, preserved by the Byzantines and rendered into Arabic, powered Baghdad’s ...

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A clip of a man reciting the Muslim call to prayer in front of a cathedral has circulated around the world in posts falsely ...

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, who revived Iranian classical music and became a symbol for the opposition after a wave of unrest in 2009, has died in a Tehran hospital at the age of 80, state television ...