Netflix TV Series: Rise of Empires: Ottoman
Source: The Cinemaholic Over the course of history, there have been events that have shaped the world. At the time, perhaps, mankind could not comprehend the enormity of what was […]
This African king ruled over a democratic nation centuries before Abraham Lincoln
Many years before the colonial invasion of Africa, there existed one of the most powerful kingdoms between what is now modern-day Mauritania and Mali, located at the south of the […]
Jewish history: A tale of passports, profiteers and escaping Nazi persecution
By Andrea Tognina (text) and Helen James (picture editor) The Jewish community in Switzerland regularly collected donations to help fellow Jews fleeing Nazi persecution and those already seeking refuge in […]
100 Years Ago… – Ahmadiyya Mission News
Source: alhakam.org The Review of Religions, August & September 1919 Chaudhry Fateh Mohammad Sayal and Mr Abdul Rahim Nayyar who left Qadian for England in the middle of July last, reached London on 6 August 1919. For the present their activities are confined to the lines already followed by our […]
100 Years Ago… This week in history of Islam Ahmadiyyat
Source: alhakam.org | Ahmadi news from around the world Al Fazl, 12 July 1919 London letter Hazrat Maulana Mufti Muhammad Sadiq Sahib has been appointed in London to represent the Ahmadiyya Jamaat regarding the national reforms for Hindustan. He is engaged in carrying out the assigned task through writing articles, […]
Technology in sub-Saharan Cultures
By: Khaleel Shaikh Genetic and paleontological findings have concluded that Africa is the birthplace of the entire human race. Africa is often thought of as a continent rich in […]
The Mongol Sack of Baghdad in 1258
TRANSCRIPT FROM A LECTURE SERIES BY PROFESSOR EAMONN GEARON, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY The Mongol conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate culminated in the horrific sack of Baghdad that effectively ended the Islamic Golden Age. […]
Spain logs hundreds of shipwrecks that tell story of maritime past
Weather rather than pirates caused majority of sinkings, says culture ministry team Sam Jones in Madrid @swajones Fri 1 Mar 2019 Columbus’s ship the Santa María runs aground off […]
Fertile African lands colonisers stole from indigenous communities
by Elizabeth Ofosuah Johnson, at 07:00 am, December 07, 2018 By the 15th century, the Europeans were well established in Africa and started to take the lands from […]
Is India waging a ‘war’ on Islamic names?
Soutik Biswas India correspondent 13 November 2018 The northern Indian city of Allahabad has been renamed Prayagraj What’s in a name? For India’s cities and villages, seemingly plenty. More […]
Is It Right to Blame World War I’s Treaty of Versailles for the Rise of Hitler?
Source: Time By STEVEN WOODBRIDGE, KINGSTON UNIVERSITY / THE CONVERSATION Just over a week after the beginning of World War II in September 1939, a letter appeared in the Richmond Herald — a […]
We should all be wearing a Khadi poppy today to commemorate the thousands of Indian soldiers who fought in WWI
The scale and significance of the British Indian Army cannot be underestimated – their sacrifice helped sow the seeds for a peace and harmony that we enjoy today and must […]
The true face of Islam won’t be found in mosques or Muslim schools, but at the British Museum
There, the new Islamic gallery, dazzles visitors and defies every certainty promoted by today’s hardline Muslim activists Ed Husain Right, a page from the Hamzanama, c.1558-73, depicting Elijah rescuing Amir […]
Excavation Of Lithuania’s Great Synagogue Highlights A ‘Painful Page’ From History
Source: NPR For decades, the principals at a boxy, two-story kindergarten in downtown Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, unwittingly pored over their lesson plans just a few feet above one of the […]
Enormous, rare Viking ship burial discovered by radar
Source: National Geographic By Andrew Curry Archaeologists in Norway using ground-penetrating radar have detected one of the largest Viking ship graves ever found. ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND the outlines of a […]
Constantine the African and the Qayrawani doctors
Constantine the African and the Qayrawani doctors: Contribution of the ‘Phoenicians’ of North Africa to Latin Medicine in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by: Charles Burnett When a sixteenth-century medical […]
Outstanding Muslim Women’s Contribution to Islamic Civilisation
Women’s Contribution to Classical Islamic Civilisation: Science, Medicine and Politics 20216. by: Salim Al-Hassani While there are numerous works on the role of Muslim women in jurisprudence (fiqh) and […]
This Black History Month, let’s teach young people how slavery interrupted a rich and powerful black history
Our young people should be taught about the horrors of the slave trade so that we never forget, but they also need to understand that their ancestors came from some […]
DIPLOMACY: Wettstein – the first Swiss diplomat had the city of Basel in mind
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 Johann Rudolf Wettstein (1594-1666) was the only Swiss envoy at the peace conference of Westphalia ending a major 17th religious […]
Humans may have wiped out largest birds
Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived? Source: BBC News By Helen Briggs Prehistoric humans are under suspicion of wiping out the largest birds that ever lived after […]
