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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: Contribution of the ‘Phoenicians’ of North Africa to Latin Medicine in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by: Charles Burnett When a sixteenth-century medical […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, […]
Source: The New York Times By Sharon Otterman Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem around 125th Street is now lined with artisanal French restaurants, wood-fired pizza joints and brunch places serving […]
Source: BBC News The authorities in Munich have begun installing new Holocaust memorials to replace brass cobblestone reminders of the Nazis’ victims. The cobblestones are considered disrespectful by Bavarian Jewish […]
Source: BBC News By Alastair Sooke 19 July 2018 Most people coming face to face for the first time with Dutch artist Maerten van Heemskerck’s 16th-Century oil painting of the […]
/ Wednesday, 20 June 2018 If we exclude from our consideration the wars that owe their origin to religious hatred, or to difference in fundamental principles, such as the struggle […]
Source: Al Jazeera News Tel Aviv – For nearly 40 years, everything about Gil Grunbaum’s life was a lie, including his name. He was not, as he had always assumed, the […]
