Borgia Family — Italian family WRITTEN BY The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica’s editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained […]
Source: History channel By Missy Sullivan They weren’t all battles and bloodshed. There was also coexistence, political compromise, trade, scientific exchange—even love. It’s often said that winners dictate history. Not […]
Source: NPR By Marisa Peñaloza, who is a senior producer on NPR’s National Desk. Corporate executives and sports officials are joining a growing number of elected officials who want to […]
Source: CNN On Tuesday, London mayor Sadiq Khan announced a review of the capital’s landmarks, with a view to remove any with links to slavery. Khan’s decision follows the toppling […]
Source: TRT World By Salahuddin Mazhary Lack of or belated official recognition marked Muslim contribution to the Soviet war effort, even though it was an ethnic Kazakh soldier, Rakhimzhan Qoshkarbaev who was the first to raise former USSR’s flag at the German parliament building. The 9th of May is a […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In 1858 a simple peasant girl, 14-year-old, named Bernadette Soubirous, living in the small village of Lourdes in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
