Sadiq the 6th Holy Imam of the Shi'ites was the Founder of the First Grand Islamic University. Imam Sadiq strengthened the ...

Sadiq (peace be upon him) lived with his grandfather, Ali the son of Hussein (peace be upon them) for 12 years, and another ...

Followers of the Ahl al-Bayt (Household of the Prophet) gather in Iran nationwide to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Ja'far ...

The Cold War was a war of armaments and ideologies—but it was also a war of words, fought in classrooms, libraries, and on ...

The princess was exiled from Istanbul with the rest of the Ottoman imperial family after the empire fell and the caliphate was abolished by the fledgling Republic of Turkey in 1924. Mourad’s ...

The new era of great powers will be an era of Asian powers and of Asian geopolitical rivalry. In many ways, that marks a ...

Studying the history of the translation movement and the philosophical and scientific efflorescence during the Abbasid Caliphate; the architectural wonders of Fatimid Cairo; reading the Shanameh of ...

Ottomans saw themselves as inheritors of the Caliphate. Safavids were drawn to Sufi masters ... Comment. How did the Abbasid Caliphs of Baghdad (from around 800 AD) help revive Persian influence after ...

An NBC News report from mid-2024 cited U.S. officials who believed Mumin, head of Islamic State in Somalia, was acting as the network’s overall leader, or caliph, though other analysts have ...

Militarily, Michael III brought about a series of transformative reforms as well. He spearheaded campaigns against the Abbasid Caliphate, recapturing key territories in Cappadocia and Mesopotamia, ...