The previous articles centered on the origins of Shiite Islam and its political history to examine the Shiite basis for ...

Both Iran and Russia are attempting to assert influence in the Caspian Sea region, but their recent miscalculations are ...

The Abbasid Ahmed was imprisoned for ten years by his nephew, the then-caliph, after the latter suspected him of aiming to dethrone him.

Maira’s grandfather was the descendant and last Amir of the Abbasid Caliphate 750CE; the golden age of learning, literature and art. During the time of Caliph Harun Ul Rashid Abbasi, the famed One ...

al-Sulamī was also a grammarian who taught in the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus. His Kitāb al-Jihād (Book of Jihād) published in ...

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