All posts tagged "Islamic history"

Very few have not heard of them, for the Mamlūks are a daunting, elusive non-elite that demarcated...

The night is claustrophobic, and the king lay dead in his bed. French Crusaders are a volatile...

Calligraphy and Arabic are sisters of the same marrow – one has not existed without the other....

When the word library comes to mind, several images rise alongside it: commanding structures, brooding masterpieces of...

No great language can ever truly be forgotten – or rather, not completely. Egypt is a spirited...

Astrology and the Zodiac are often associated with flowery magazine columns and teenager obsessions, however, unbeknownst to...

At least 98 old Islamic enameled glass lamps are suspected to have been stolen from Al-Rafa’i mosque...

Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities has announced that Cairo’s Islamic Art Museum has been “completely destroyed,” in a...