Severe droughts explain the mysterious fall of the Maya
Source: BBC By Robin Wylie 22 February 2016 This story is part of BBC Earth’s “Best of 2016” list, our greatest hits of the year. Browse the full list. When […]
Shock: The First Crusade and the Conquest of Jerusalem
Source: Aljazeera The Crusades: An Arab Perspective is a four-part documentary series telling the dramatic story of the Crusades seen through Arab eyes, from the seizing of Jerusalem under Pope […]
Does Aleppo prove that we westerners should keep the world’s antiquities?
If the Aleppo room was still in Aleppo, and not a museum in Berlin, it might well have been destroyed, burned in the indulgence of fire which consumed much of the old city two years ago when even the great mosque and minaret of the Omayad crashed to the ground […]
Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science
Hillel Ofek Contemporary Islam is not known for its engagement in the modern scientific project. But it is heir to a legendary “Golden Age” of Arabic science frequently invoked by commentators hoping to make Muslims and Westerners more respectful and understanding of each other. President Obama, for instance, in his […]
The Private Heisenberg and the Absent Bomb
Source: The New York review of Books My Dear Li: Correspondence, 1937–1946 by Werner and Elisabeth Heisenberg, edited by Anna Maria Hirsch-Heisenberg and translated from the German by Irene Heisenberg. Yale University Press, 312 pp., $40.00 Almost as soon as World War II ended in Europe, and with redoubled intensity […]
Omar: A historical Arab television drama miniseries
Omar or Farouk Omar is a historical Arab television drama miniseries-serial that was produced and broadcast by MBC1 and directed by Hatem Ali. Wikipedia First episode date: July 20, 2012 […]
7,000 year-old lost city, cemetery unearthed in Egypt
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES CAIRO Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities Photo Egypt has unearthed a more than 7,000-year-old city and cemetery dating back to its First Dynasty in the southern province of Sohag, the Antiquities Ministry said on Wednesday. The city and cemetery – likely home to senior functionaries and grave […]
MUSLIM SICILY PART 1: THE RISE AND FALL OF ISLAM IN ITALY
Regarding the topic of Islam on the European continent, the focus is usually exclusively on the period of Muslim Spain, al-Andalus, that lasted from 711 to 1492 (with a Muslim minority population that remained until 1609) and the Ottoman Empire, which crossed from Anatolia into Southeastern Europe in the early […]
What really happened to mammoths and other ice age giants
The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles about guided evolution. Read a book online: A New Book: The Quran and the Biological Evolution. Source: BBC By Niki Rust […]
A new use for Saddam Hussein’s palace
Source: BBC By Husna Haq 1 November 2016 When Yazan Fadhli introduces himself to people and mentions that he’s from Iraq, his homeland conjures questions about the Islamic State, sectarian […]
The Smithsonian now has its first religion curator since the 1890s
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Peter Manseau was born for this job. The son of a priest and a nun, Manseau was meant to be a scholar making […]
At the holiest spot in Christendom, delving for Jesus’s resting place
Source: Times of Israel This Wednesday Oct. 26, 2016 photo shows the moment workers remove the top marble layer of the tomb said to be of Jesus, in the Church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. A restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries […]
The mind games that helped win WWII What did the British government learn from Mein Kampf?
Source: BBC By Fiona Macdonald Secrets and spies The word ‘propaganda’ might suggest some form of misinformation – yet in boosting morale during World War Two, the British government had […]
Creation of Amish history museum in Illinois underway
Source: Associated Press ARTHUR, Ill. (AP) — Efforts to open an Amish history museum in Illinois are underway after the oldest-known Amish house in the state was moved to the […]
History: Irish slaves in USA? Yes or no?
Let’s Squash the Myth That the Irish Were Ever American Slaves Madeleine Davies Éirinn go Brách and Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to my fellow children of the Emerald Isle! From oppression by the British to oppression in the United States to oppression on cereal boxes, we have endured a lot […]
Anita Sarkeesian: Schools Need to Teach History That Includes Women
Source: Motto By Jessie Van Amburg Anita Sarkeesian, a TIME 100 honoree, blogger and the founder of the Feminist Frequency nonprofit, spoke to Motto via email about the need to feature more women’s stories in media and her new Ordinary Women video series. Motto: What was your goal with this […]
Why our ancestors drilled holes in each other’s skulls
Source: BBC By Robin Wylie 29 August 2016 For a large part of human prehistory, people around the world practised trepanation: a crude surgical procedure that involves forming a hole […]
Mosque are not for terror activities
Recently, a widely published study claimed that mosques and Islamic schools are filled with extremist literature. For Muslims who have made significant contribution to society through faith-based charitable drives such […]
The giant pyramid hidden inside a mountain
Source: BBC By Zaria Gorvett They arrived in their thousands. Hardened by months of war with ferocious natives, near-starvation and exotic diseases, Hernan Cortez and his Spanish army marched into […]
Five languages that came from English
Source: BBC By James Harbeck Languages are ever changing, mixing and mutating, and sometimes they give birth to new ones. Sanskrit gave birth to Hindi and others; Latin is ancestor […]