Islamic History

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

Osman I’s life, despite its historical importance, is still surrounded by uncertainties and doubts due to the scarcity of contemporary sources a...

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

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, also known simply as al-Biruni, was undoubtedly one of the greatest polymaths of the ...

Ibn Sina, better known in the West as Avicenna, was a great Persian polymath and one of the most important thinkers of the ...

Raziya al-Din, also known as Razia, was the first and only woman to achieve the position of sultana in the Delhi Sultanate, ruling between the years 1...

During the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century (1830-1903) the French conquered Algeria, which was marked by the resistance against t...

In the year 628, Prophet Muhammad would seal a truce with the Quraysh tribe that would forever change the way Muslims carry out t...

The most controversial and unfortunate event in the Ottoman campaign for the control of southern Italy, the Conquest of Otranto, is certainly the ques...

Many people would be surprised to discover that, even before the establishment of the slave trade in the 15th and 16th centuries, Christian states pro...

Sinan Reis, also known as Sinan the Jew, was a privateer in Hayreddin Barbarossa’s<...

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