Muslim Empires …
Chronology This chronology aims to help you place the major empires and dynasties mentioned in this guide in a historical and geographical framework. The general regions ruled by each dynasty […]
Islamic history from 1683 to the present: reform, dependency, and recovery
naryQuizzesMoney SubscribeLogin Islamic world Fast Facts Media More Islamic history from 1683 to the present: reform, dependency, and recovery The history of modern Islam has often been explained in terms of the impact of […]
Is Ibn Khaldun the Forgotten Father of Economics?
Daniel Olah ECONOMICS Is Ibn Khaldun the Forgotten Father of Economics? Special Interview with the Economist Dániel Oláh 13th April 2021 Add Comment Economic history is a treasure trove of […]
In Search of a Lost Spain
In Search of a Lost Spain In the southern part of the country, churches and streets hold the remnants of eight centuries of Islamic rule. The ceiling of the Hall […]
The ancient Islamic roots of modernity
(Image credit: Keir Collection of Islamic Art/ Dallas Museum of Art) By Cath Pound1st September 2022 There was a particular moment in history when no artistic field was immune to the […]
6 UNIQUE DESTINATIONS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ARE MUSLIM-FRIENDLY
NATASHA EFFENDY As international travel gradually resumes, travellers across the region have started making plans to fly abroad for a well-deserved vacation with their loved ones. For Muslim travellers, some […]
Million-dollar question in the world of Islam
BY MAHMUD EROL KILIÇ SEP 20, 2022 – Illustration edited by Büşra Öztürk. ‘From religious scholars to academia, from politicians to artists, every segment in a Muslim society should have […]
Why did King Henry II Threaten to join Islam: BBC
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page. Promoted post: Our Favorite Christian Prayer by Saint Francis, For the Whole of our […]
The Government of Saudi Arabia and the Ahmadiyya Khilafat
IMPORTANT NOTE. This article contains my personal views. I note down some facts as I heard them or noticed them. This is in no way an ‘official’ research. All mistakes […]
The History of the Prohibition of Interest
AHMED DANYAL ARIFECONOMICS 2nd November 2021 ©Shutterstock Ahmed Danyal Arif, UK According to Muslims, each word and every letter of the Holy Qur’an is the word of Allah, revealed to […]
Why Muslims See the Crusades So Differently from Christians
Promoted post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy They weren’t all battles and bloodshed. There was also coexistence, political compromise, trade, scientific exchange—even love. […]
Hussain, the Hero of Karbala
By Mushtaq Hurra on 1:30 am August 8, 2022 Pages of history bear witness to the fortitude, courage and determination of scores of warriors and fighters who have left indelible marks on the […]
Ibn al-Haytham is considered by many to be the world’s first scientist
Born in 965 CE, Ibn al-Haytham is considered by many to be the world’s first scientist. He also invented the camera obscura, the earliest avatar of the modern digital camera […]
Fraxinetum. An Arab settlement in Southern France, Italy and Switzerland more than 1000 years ago
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Fraxinetum or Fraxinet (Arabic: فرخشنيط, romanized: Farakhshanīt or فرخشة Farakhsha, from Latin fraxinus: “ash tree“, fraxinetum: “ash forest”) was the site of a Muslim fortress in Provence between about 887 and 972. It is identified with […]
15 Things You Did Not Know About the Moors of Spain
1. The Spanish occupation by the Moors began in 711 AD when an African army, under their leader Tariq ibn-Ziyad, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from northern Africa and invaded […]
Who was Omar Khayyam?
Omar Khayyam was an Islamic mathematician, astronomer, historian, philosopher, and poet. He was born in Nishapur, the initial capital of the Seljuk Empire. As a scholar, he lived under the […]
India now drops Gujarat riots, Mughal history from textbooks
In late April, chapters on the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, the chronicles of Mughal courts from the class XI-XII curricula File photo: A Hindu mob waving swords […]
The age of Aisha r.a.: A modern question for medieval times
18th June 2022 Asif M Basit, Ahmadiyya ARC To accurately determine one’s age in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Arabia was a next-to-impossible matter. Why so? We find the answer in […]
Droughts in the sixth century paved the way for Islam
CLIMATE CHANGE Extreme dry conditions contributed to the decline of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Himyar. Combined with political unrest and war, the droughts left behind a region in […]