When it comes to the Middle Ages, it is common to associate this period with darkness (“Dark Ages”): intellectual, religious repression an...

Is Europe Christian? This simple question remains the genesis of troubled, controversial and heated discussions about the real identity of the Europea...

In popular discourse and, unfortunately, in part scholarly, on the history of science and the scientific and technological advancement of the muslim w...

The sect of the Qarmatians arises in the 890s., originating from Isma’ilism (branch of Shia Islam), and is usually remembered for making opposit...

Written by: Pedro Gaião Massacres of Jews, Muslims and Eastern Christians; breaking of oaths to take over conquered lan...

Author: César Cervera Boabdil, nicknamed by Christians as &l...

Written by: Pedro Gaião The year 1492 is a watershed in the history of the Iberian Peninsula. In the previous decades, ...

The Constitution of Medina, sometimes also called the “Ummah Document”1, is a charter that contains the first legal and adminis...

Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al Farabi, known simply as al-Farabi1, was a great Muslim polymath born in the 9th century, living until the...

Far from being invented in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in 1897, ...

These can be subdivided into two groups: one consisted of slaves of Slavic origin who were recognized as highly valued goods there, and the other were...

Muhammad bin Qasim al-Thaqafi (695-715), also called Imad ad-Din, was a great military commander of the Umayyad Caliphate during ...